PLOS Collection: Yellow Fever

This Lancet Commission report provides a comprehensive review of global progress toward ending tuberculosis. A follow-up to the 2019 Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis report, this report presents progress and challenges toward ending tuberculosis worldwide, including lessons learned from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused disruptions to tuberculosis treatment and diagnostics, and a projected increase in TB mortality. The Commission's report outlines tuberculosis diagnostics, tools, therapeutics, improved TB treatment options, and interventions for TB…

This article from the Journal of Infectious Diseases examines the Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP) program which was created to provide human resource and technical assistance in eradicating polio. It was developed in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO). STOP aided in strengthening disease surveillance and outbreak response. Lessons learned from the development and implementation of the STOP program may inform other successful global development…

This web portal from The Lancet is the hub for an international research collaboration between academic institutions across the world as well as the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization, dedicated to monitoring the world’s responses to climate change and the health effects that result from those efforts. The Lancet Countdown builds on the success of the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change and provides a global overview of the relationship between public health and climate change.…