22 Oct 2020 Watch COR NTD schistosomiasis meeting recordings here Missed the COR NTD premeeting sessions on schistosomiasis? You can watch them through here.
21 Oct 2020 New Cycle of the Ascend Learning and Innovation Fund Do you have an innovative idea to help beat neglected tropical diseases? The Ascend West and Central Africa programme is excited to announce the opening of the second Cycle of the Ascend Learning and Innovation Fund, to accelerate the control and elimination efforts for up to five neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
13 Oct 2020 Schistosome and Snail Resource (SSR); supporting global schistosomiasis research. Wellcome Trust Biomedical Resource Grant worth more than £1 million over five years has been awarded to scientists at the Natural History Museum of London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to create a Schistosome and Snail Resource (SSR) to support global schistosomiasis research.
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 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.
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.
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.
