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28 Sep 2021

Financial Times | Budget cuts hinder efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases

As donated drugs near expiry, time is running out to distribute them, just as the peak season for infection approaches

16 Sep 2021

Schistosomiasis Research Grant

Merck is a leading company in the fight against Schistosomiasis. This initiative is all about catalyzing research. They want to give promising researchers what they need – and when they need it most.

15 Sep 2021

The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and Crown Agents join forces to accelerate the elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases across five African countries

Work is commencing on the new Accelerate Resilient, Innovative, and Sustainable Elimination of NTDs (ARISE-NTDs) programme this September to support governments to control and eliminate three endemic Neglected Tropical Diseases from Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania and Zanzibar, and Zambia.

02 Sep 2021

Call for Entries | Virtual Innovation Lab at COR-NTD

Have you been involved with the development of a technology or advance with the potential to help NTD programs? If so, COR-NTD invites you to apply to showcase your innovation for the hundreds of researchers, donors and program implementers

Deadline 15 September

17 Aug 2021

Urgent action is needed to tackle impact of early childhood schistosomiasis on education

A new study reveals that the negative impacts of schistosome infection on early child development and educational attainment can be reversed within 6 months after treatment with the drug praziquantel.

04 Aug 2021

The Kigali Declaration – your invitation to feedback on the draft declaration

The Kigali Declaration on neglected tropical diseases is a high-level, political declaration which aims to mobilise political will and secure commitments to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) target on neglected tropical diseases and to deliver the targets set out in the World Health Organization’s Neglected Tropical Disease Roadmap (2021-2030).

03 Aug 2021

Call for Proposals | African Researcher's Small Grants Program V

The fifth edition of the Small Grants Program (SGP V) is seeking proposals for both operational and social science research on ‘’Emerging Challenges facing NTD program implementation in Africa.’’ to support African researchers in both early and mid/late career to undertake operational research aligned with the goals established in the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases.

16 Jul 2021

Merck and Universal Corporation Ltd, Kenya agree large-scale production of new pediatric medication to treat schistosomiasis in preschool-aged children

Merck has entered into a contract manufacturing agreement with Universal Corporation Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya, for the large-scale production of a new pediatric medication for schistosomiasis.

25 Jun 2021

WHO Technical Advisory Group on schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases control and elimination

Deadline extended to 20 July 2021

WHO is seeking experts to serve as members of a new Technical Advisory Group on control and elimination of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases.

24 Jun 2021

Schistosomiasis Research Meeting 2021

Watch the recordings from our Research Innovation Meeting.

14 Jun 2021

Telegraph | UK aid cuts will result in the destruction of millions of doses of life-saving drugs

Almost 200 million doses of medicine for the treatment of neglected diseases in Africa are at risk of expiring because of foreign aid budget cuts.

12 May 2021

COR-NTD | Q&A with Maria Rebollo on the WHO/AFRO Mapping Project

Interview with Maria Rebollo, ESPEN team leader for the World Health Organization Africa and lead author of Baseline Mapping of Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa: The Accelerated WHO/AFRO Mapping Project

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Financial Times | Budget cuts hinder efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases

Schistosomiasis Research Grant

The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and Crown Agents join forces to accelerate the elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases across five African countries

Call for Entries | Virtual Innovation Lab at COR-NTD

Urgent action is needed to tackle impact of early childhood schistosomiasis on education

The Kigali Declaration – your invitation to feedback on the draft declaration

Call for Proposals | African Researcher's Small Grants Program V

Merck and Universal Corporation Ltd, Kenya agree large-scale production of new pediatric medication to treat schistosomiasis in preschool-aged children

WHO Technical Advisory Group on schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases control and elimination

Schistosomiasis Research Meeting 2021

Telegraph | UK aid cuts will result in the destruction of millions of doses of life-saving drugs

COR-NTD | Q&A with Maria Rebollo on the WHO/AFRO Mapping Project

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