The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse recent progress in reducing the global burden of tuberculosis. The global number of deaths for tuberculosis could increase by around 200.000–400.000 in 2020 alone, as result of essential tuberculosis services disruptions due to the reallocation of human, financial and other resources from tuberculosis to the COVID-19 response, as reported by WHO: https://bit.ly/35KyzD
This year Lecce served as the host city for the Annual Meeting of our coordinated project IMVACS (Building multidisciplinary evidence to support Integrating Malaria VACcine with Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in
Emerging and re-emerging viral infections represent one of the most complex challenges for global public health. Among these, Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is emerging with increasing urgency due to recurring outbreaks
In Africa, pregnant women and young children are the most vulnerable to malaria. However, malaria control interventions and strategies have achivied important results in the last years. COVID-19 has now