Diarrhoea is a leading cause of illness and death among children aged less than five years in developing countries.

For World Immunisation Week 2015 we highlight how MRC Unit The Gambia is contributing to the global fight to eradicate polio, assessing the timing of the injectable, inactivated polio vaccine (IPV)

Dr Margaret Pinder and Professor Steve Lindsay of Durham University and the MRC Unit The Gambia have secured a grant from the Joint Global Heath Trials, to assess whether improved housing can prote

Working hand in hand with the Gambian National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), MRC Unit The Gambia is at the forefront of research on malaria and on possible interventions for its control.

The second synchronicity meeting of Canadian and African HIV prevention and vaccine researchers Afri-Can Forum-2 was held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 16-18 February 2015, chaired by MRC Unit

Dr Grant Mackenzie, Principal Investigator of the Pneumococcal Surveillance Project, has secured an 18 month funding extension to continue with surveillance of pneumococcal infections at MRC Basse

Dr Alfred Amambua-Ngwa is a Career Development Fellow, whose research focuses on malaria population genomics with a particular interest in determining genome-wide signatures of selection for marker

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has announced that Professor Tumani Corrah has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the progress

Dr Uzochukwu Egere, the lead research clinician on the Vaccinology Reach4Kids programme, recently won a highly competitive grant worth $50,000 from the Special Programme for Research and Training i

Immunologist Dr Jayne Sutherland, Head of tuberculosis (TB) Immunology and the TB case-contact platform at MRC Unit The Gambia has recently won a major European grant worth €480,000.

A ceremony at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH) in Banjul on 20 January celebrated the opening of refurbished facilities completed by MRC Unit The Gambia, funded through The West A

In a ceremony attended by senior representatives of the Gambian Government, MRC Unit The Gambia handed over equipment to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare through the Global Fund Asset Tran