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The Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center (NTD-SC) at The Task Force for Global Health is currently soliciting proposals for operational and implementation research to improve the effectiveness of interventions used in the elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

The neglected tropical diseases (NTD) community has collaborated to create two new tools to show the progress made in the fight against NTDs and to accelerate further progress through collective action.

The END Fund’s Audacious Project announced at TED 2019 aims to eliminate schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths as a public health problem in targeted countries in six years.

Over the past three months, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Expanded Special Project for the Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ESPEN) has supported Nigeria to reach over 2 million children who have never had Schistosomiasis treatment before.

The London Center for NTD Research interviewed Dr Wendy Harrison, executive director of SCI and former chair of the NTD NGO network on the benefits of strenghtening the ties between NTD research and NTD implementation.