12 Oct 2020 Global health partners collaborate to accelerate development of a new schistosomiasis test The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), the Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund, the Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine (NUITM) and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Merck are joining forces to accelerate development and access to a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) for schistosomiasis.
02 Oct 2020 The Economist Intelligence Unit reports on the overwhelming socio-economic gains of eliminating schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report commissioned by The END Fund examines the burden of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis and estimates the potential economic gains of meeting the WHO’s elimination goals in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe.
01 Oct 2020 NNN 2020 Conference Recordings Available Now Did you miss the NNN 2020 Conference? Were you unable to attend a workshop? You can watch the recordings of plenaries, workshops and rapid fire presentations here.
30 Sep 2020 TDR launches interactive intersectional gender analysis toolkit for infectious disease. TDR's intersectional gender analysis toolkit aims to strengthen the capacity of researchers working on infectious diseases of poverty by incorporating an intersectional gender approach. Gender, sex and their intersections with other social variables influence everyone's health. Understanding how and why is important for decision-makers and health practitioners to improve the health of their citizens.
30 Sep 2020 WHO Treats One Billion People for NTDs for the Fifth Consecutive year. The World Health Organization (WHO) published data showing that more than one billion people were treated in 2019 for at least one of the five neglected tropical diseases1 (NTDs) amenable to prevention, control and elimination through large-scale preventive treatment campaigns.
25 Sep 2020 Merck and the NALA Foundation Continue Partnership to Eliminate Schistosomiasis Merck and the NALA Foundation are collaborating with the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia to achieve schistosomiasis elimination.
22 Sep 2020 NTDs Ideas Forum: Programme Innovation in a COVID-19 Context A series of virtual meetings to unite NTD control programmes, implementing and technical partners, and donors as they consider how NTD programmes might need to change in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
21 Sep 2020 Sightsavers News: Health programme exceeds several first-year targets Ascend West Africa and Central Africa has surpassed several of its first-year targets as it delivers more than 127 million drug treatments for five debilitating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
02 Sep 2020 WHO Bulletin: Integration of prevention and control measures for female genital schistosomiasis, HIV and cervical cancer WHO policy paper discusses how female genital schistosomiasis control can be integrated with HIV and cervical cancer care.
12 Aug 2020 The Power Of The Youth To End Neglected Tropical Diseases On this International Youth Day, we celebrate the power of the youth as critical agents of social change at the community, village or national and global levels. We recognize the role that young people play in creating conversations and engaging with the public to take action on unequal opportunities that are rampant mostly among marginalized populations.
27 Jul 2020 UPDATE: WHO interim guidance on the implementation of NTD programmes WHO issues interim guidance on the resumption of mass treatment interventions, active case-finding and population-based surveys for NTDs in the context of COVID-19.
22 Jul 2020 Ending the neglect: WHO webinars on Neglected Tropical Diseases Starting with the inaugural webinar on the 17th of June on the new road map, COVID-19 and the road to recovery, the WHO has launched a series of NTD themed webinars.
