Despite ambitious and costly eradication programmes, many tropical countries are still ravaged by malaria, leprosy, bilharzia, river blindness and sleeping sickness. Two years ago the World Health Organisation introduced a Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Disease. On a recent visit to Geneva, John Maddox talked to Dr A. O. Lucas , Director of the Special Programme, and Dr Auguste Noguer , Head of the Malaria Unit, about the successes and failures of the new strategy to control tropical diseases.
Editor MICHAEL BRIGHT