Households affected by leprosy face being pushed further into poverty as a result of loss of earnings and treatment costs, according to the first ever study of the economic burden of a common complication of the disease.

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Deputy Director & Provost, Professor Anne Mills, has been made a Dame in the Queen's New Year Honours list in recognition of her services to international health.

Reforms advocated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for chronically under-funded and insufficiently staffed health systems in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, have contributed to "lack

The results of the government's Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), announced today, confirm the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's position as one of the UK's leading centres for world-class research.

Comment on the Office for National Statistics bulletin which presents an

New publication reports that a lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene in birth settings is killing mothers and newborns in the developing world.

The 'Ebola Fighters' have been named TIME Person of the Year 2014.

There is no need to spray DDT insecticide on walls for malaria control when people sleep under treated bed nets, according to new research published in

The widespread misconception that there are no proven treatments for Ebola virus disease has meant that simple treatme

Improvements overshadowed by low survival for brain, stomach, lung, oesophageal, and pancreatic cancers.

'Ebola in Context' to help understanding of transmission and boost response and control efforts.

Self-testing for HIV using rapid diagnostic kits is becoming increasingly widely used, as it enables people, particularly in high-risk groups, to discretely and conveniently test their own HIV stat