About: tropical diseases

The clock is ticking on malaria
With drug and insecticide resistance on the rise and slow progress in reducing cases and deaths, the clock is ticking on malaria. The EU must join other health leaders and scale up its efforts to fight the disease, writes Charles Goerens.
Ivermectin: A Nobel Prize medicine inaccessible to the world’s poorest
The true potential of new medical breakthroughs can only be unlocked if they are offered at an affordable cost to those who need them most, writes Jose Muñoz.![Climate change threatens to take an estimated 250,000 lives each year between 2030 and 2050, mainly in developing countries. [Kuster & Wildhaber Photography]](https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/5935884375-d5b88e18d6-z-0.jpeg)
Climate change rivals Ebola at World Health Summit
Climate change is expected to cause 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, affecting the poorest countries with weak health care systems - a global challenge that rivaled Ebola as one of the top issues at the World Health Summit in Berlin this week. EURACTIV Germany reports.
Spanish health trade union leader: We only had 15 minutes of training on Ebola
The Madrid regional government has not given health personnel enough training to deal with Ebola properly, including the Spanish nurse Teresa Romero, who is now the first person in the world to contract the virus outside Africa, says Juan Carlos Mejías. Romero was in contact with one of two ill Spanish priests who died of the disease in Madrid's Carlos III Hospital.![Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) prepare to bring food to patients kept in an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kailahun July 20, 2014 [Photo: Reuters]](https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/11/ebola_west_africa.jpeg)
EU scales up aid to tackle Ebola outbreak in West Africa
The European Commission has pledged an additional €2 million to tackle the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, amid fears that the virus will spread to other parts of the world.![Asian tiger mosquito [Susan Ellis/Bugwood.org]](https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/mosquito_tiger.jpeg)