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In this ISNTDConnect webinar, we showcase the need for biorepositories and biobanks for research and development in NTDs. 

This study reviewed peer-reviewed publications released before June 2021 to assess the effectiveness of BC projects in decreasing risk practices and disease prevalence. Projects used four approaches: health education (HEIs), social-environmental (SEIs), physical-environmental (PEIs), and incentives-centred interventions (ICIs).

In this ISNTD Connect session, Milkias Lakew and Endriyas Shobew present on behalf of World Vision Ethiopia on The Geshiyaro Project: breaking the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis through WASH-NTD integration

GSA's strategic plan 2022 - 2025. Working Together To Eliminate Schistosomiasis

Part 2 of our webinar series, Delivering on Women's Health, with ISNTD and SCI Foundation / La deuxième partie de notre nouvelle série de webinaires, Delivering on Women's Health, avec l'ISNTD et la Fondation SCI.

Precision mapping, or sub-district mapping, is recommended by the WHO and the GSA, and rolled out by national programmes in collaboration with partners as a method for refining a targeted treatment strategy, to ensure optimum treatment and improved efficiencies in resource utilization.

In this ISNTD Connect and GSA  collaborative webinar scientists discuss schistosomiasis control, elimination and innovation in the Philippines.

Recording of the COR-NTD Research Links Series webinar about putting schistosomiasis precision mapping into practice.

Highlighting ongoing epidemiological changes witnessed by better appreciation of male genital schistosomiasis, an outbreak of intestinal schistosomiasis and emergence of a novel set of hybrids schistosomes. Collectively, these dynamics require a broadening of future control interventions with wider intersectoral actions, ultimately adoption of a OneHealth approach.

The Advisory Board met virtually with the GSA Executive on the 1st of March to review the GSA 2020 Annual Report and Operational Strategy for 2021.

Drs Upendo Mwingira, Steffi Knopp, Fiona Fleming and the GSA team present findings from the COR NTD schistosomiasis elimination pre-meeting sessions and discuss the next steps in consolidating operational research questions into a pathway to develop an M&E framework for schistosomiasis elimination.

In this recording participants discuss establishing an evidence-based framework for monitoring and evaluation of schistosomiasis programs using currently available data and knowledge.

Dr Justin Komguep Nono (Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation of Cameroon) as part of the COR NTD premeeting on Fake News and Trust in NTDs Health Program.

Together with the Global Schistosomiasis Alliance, the COR-NTD Secretariat hosted an online meeting on "Fake News & Trust in NTD Health Programs" to identify operational research questions for best practices in countering misinformation and empowering communities to identify fact from fiction, relative to NTD control programs.

The recording of COR NTD – STH Coalition and GSA pre-meeting session: Integrated strategies for hotspots: beyond ecology and towards cross-cutting programmatic challenges

Yael Velleman (Director of Policy and Communications, SCI Foundation) and Gilbert Baayenda (Trachoma Program Officer & NTD/WASH Collaboration focal point at the Vector Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases Division, Ministry of Health, Uganda) discuss "Rethinking WASH for the control and elimination of schistosomiasis".

"​​Where can a 50-year career in schistosomiasis take you geographically and scientifically?", a conversation with Dr. Dan Colley (Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Georgia) & Dr. Goylette Chami (Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford).

Derick Osakunor, from the University of Edinburgh, discusses the current treatment gaps in different age groups and how these are hindering the schistosomiasis goal of "elimination as a public health problem".

The GSA organised a COR NTD workshop on the Assessment of Schistosomiasis and Trachoma Distribution in Urban Areas for Targeted Intervention, on the 19th of November 2019.

A video highlighting the importance of a reseach agenda for Female Genital Schistosomiasis.

The Global Schistosomiasis Alliance, hosted by the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and working with the WHO NTD Department, held a consultation meeting with experts and stakeholders to provide feedback on the new proposed WHO goals for schistosomiasis and to discuss and agree on potential sub-targets and indicators for the new NTD Roadmap.

The GSA Advisory Board met with the GSA executive team on the 6th of February 2019 and reviewed activities and outputs from 2018 and the operational plan for 2019.

On the 18th of July the GSA hosted a joint meeting with ESPEN at the NTD Programme Managers meeting in Kigali Rwanda, entitled:

"Where, when and how can schistosomiasis be eliminated"

You can download the meeting report here.

GSA réunion d'affiner et d’adopter un Plan d’Action Stratégique pour le control et l’élimination de la schistosomiase et pour identifier les étapes principales à venir dans l’application de ce plan.

We are delighted to share the Making Schistory report, filled with information, info-graphics and the motivating, passionate stories of people across the world fighting this debilitating disease. Together we will consigne schistosomiasis to history!