HOW TO | Vaccinate 710,000 people in 10 days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHaPmLJJ584 Organising a successful mass vaccination takes much more than just providing a vaccine to those in need. In the…
Infection/Disease
Indian summer flu
Will our Indian summer make the flu season any worse? In my opinion, yes, but not for the reasons you…
How we’ll fight the next deadly virus | Pardis Sabeti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8RxjxdUulE When Ebola broke out in March 2014, Pardis Sabeti and her team got to work sequencing the virus's…
Fighting AIDS Saving Lives | Community ART groups
https://youtu.be/V80fbz9vcog Community ART groups is a patient-led initiative that gives support to people living with AIDS. By helping with the…
Why Hepatitis B Isn’t On Its Way Out (Yet)
Is hepatitis B infection a problem that will gradually fizzle out over time? On initial reflection, it is easy to…
How we fight infection
Our bodies are designed to keep out infection, using an armoury that includes a tough outer layer of skin, tiny hair-like…
Why more women die of bacteraemia
Scientific research is an ongoing process and one conclusion often raises more questions than it answers. Our research, published in…
Screen and treat for HepB
Hepatitis B is a devastating virus that infects around 250 million people worldwide and is endemic proportions in parts of…
Can we win the war on bacteria?
“The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that…
Sepsis is just as urgent as a heart attack and should be treated similarly
“Every year doctors, in the UK, have to deal with 150,000 cases of sepsis, resulting in around 44,000 deaths. This…