Do you know NTDs & the challenges faced by NTD programmes and their partners? WHO seeks experts to serve as members of its Strategic & Technical Advisory Group for NTDs

Deadline: 16 July 2022

Info: bit.ly/3mWtC2d

📢Now published: new World Health Organization (WHO) Rx guidelines for visceral leishmaniasis in HIV-coinfected patients in East Africa and South-East Asia. bit.ly/3tn9xWe

👏👏👏 #Togo is the first and only country acknowledged by World Health Organization (WHO) for eliminating 4 #NTDs : #GuineaWorm in 2011, #LymphaticFilariasis in 2017, #SleepingSickness in 2020, #trachoma in 2022. Keep doing! #EndNTD

Many thanks 🙏 to Nature Reviews Disease Primers for their support to publish this review on current work to #EndTrachoma

Felicitations to 🇹🇬Togo, which has been validated by World Health Organization (WHO) as having eliminated trachoma as public health problem!🤩📸@ #WHA75 : Dr Matshidiso Moeti, Prof Mijiyawa Moustafa, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ren Minghui 任明辉

🗓️On 11 May 2018, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization (WHO)
congratulated 🇬🇭Ghana for having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Congratulations Ministry of Health, Ghana & partners on their 4-year #EndTrachoma eliminniversary! #beatNTDs World Health Organization (WHO)Ghana World Health Organization (WHO)AFRO

NTDs in Arizona.....Postigo@WHO Daniel Argaw.D Anthony Solomon

#WHA74 's Committee A has just adopted a decision designating 🗓️January 30 as a day dedicated to neglected tropical diseases

#beatNTDs

📸: Fight Trachoma

If you are from Africa; interested in doing a PhD in data science co-supervised by Peter Diggle & Emanuele Giorgi Lancaster University; & hold a Master’s degree in maths, statistics, computer science or other relevant field, the 🌍 needs you. Please see bit.ly/33xwbhs

📘 Now available online: the Report of the 23rd Meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma by 2020

bit.ly/336s0c5

#endTrachoma #beatNTDs

World Health Organization (WHO) and UK aid with the help of partners have achieved so much to #beatNTDs . Let's finish the job!!

Trachoma has been eliminated in The Gambia! The world is one step closer to eliminating this neglected tropical disease for good. Join us in celebrating with The Gambia and watch Sightsavers video about how they reached this amazing achievement! youtu.be/csJcBEXDgC8

Two new sub-groups of World Health Organization (WHO)’s Diagnostic Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases are being created. They're on:

(1) zoonotic NTDs
(2) visceral leishmaniasis

Nominations of experts are requested:
📆Call closes 10 May
💻bit.ly/3gkfGwO  

#beatNTDs

In a 31st March update to their living guidelines, World Health Organization (WHO) advises not to use ivermectin for the management of COVID-19 except in the context of a clinical trial: bit.ly/3rzfFXS

The 'Global Strategy on💧water, 💩sanitation & 🚿hygiene to combat neglected tropical diseases 2021-2030' is 🗝️ for helping us #beatNTDs

ICYMI, here's today's short-but-powerful webinar discussing that strategy: youtu.be/yfq2H07UWVY

Congratulations & happy 5th birthday to🌴 #TropicalData 🎂! Five years, 45 countries, and more than 6.8 million people examined to help #Endtrachoma

#beatNTDs

📸: Shea Flynn/RTI International

🔊🔊🔊 Are You Ready?

All is set for this Month's #TakeOnNTDs Tweetchat series.

Guess What? It's a Special Edition to mark #WorldWaterDay2021 with focus on the Global Strategy on #WASH and NTDs.

Friday, 26 March 2021 is the date. Please Mark your Calendar! #ValueWater