Sally Hargreaves discusses highlights from the December issue: private sector investment in global health, especially HIV/AIDS, outlined in the Leading Edge and in a Newsdesk item; reviews on human brucellosis disease and meningococcal disease; and discussion of the feature concerning the forced isolation of individuals with tuberculosis in South Africa.

John McConnell discusses highlights from the November issue: a Review of bacterial genome sequencing and its use in infectious diseases, a Review of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and an Editorial on The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

John McConnell discusses highlights from the October issue: a Leading Edge calling for canine rabies vaccination, and three Reviews; influenza vaccination among elderly people, intravascular catheter-related infections, and the benefit of vaccination among injecting drug users.

John McConnell dicusses a review about cutaneous leishmaniasis, a neglected parasitic disease; a meta-analysis investigating the association between mycobaterium avium paratuberculosis and Crohn's disease; and an unusual personal view about how the virtual gaming world could help us prepare strategies in the event of real-life disease epidemics

Senior Editor Sally Hargreaves from The Lancet Infectious Diseases discusses topics from the August issue: including a leading edge on prison health and communicable diseases, and a review on cholera by Jane Zuckerman and colleagues at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Travel Medicine.

John McConnell and Richard Lane discuss highlights from the July issue: a meta-analysis suggesting that the herbal product echinacea can reduce the chance of catching a cold by 58% and reduce the length of a cold by 1.4 days; also discussed is the article documenting worldwide HPV prevalence of 10%, and the leading edge editorial about the recent G8 summit.

Sally Hargreaves discusses the editorial in the June issue concerning health policies for migrants. Many countries adopt screening programmes which in some cases fail to be cost-effective and confer few benefits to public health. Also discussed are the reviews about universal screening of infants for hepatitis B, and the parasitic disease cystic echinococosis.

Editor John McConnell discusses highlights from the May issue: a resurgence of chikungunya infection around the Indian Ocean and a review about the need to be strain-specific in order to develop new prevention and treatment strategies for tuberculosis.

Editor John McConnell discusses highlights from the April issue, including a review assessing the mode of transmission for Influenza A, the publication of the ORION statement aiming to improve standards of research in infection control in hospital settings, and the review on human t-cell lymphotropic disease

John McConnell highlights the March issue, including a review about diagnosing bacterial meningitis in emergency settings, procalcytonin and the diagnosis of sepsis.