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Action Towards Reducing Aquatic Snail Borne Parasitic Diseases (ATRAP) is a collaborative project between MUST and RMCA fighting #Schistosomiasis

Mbarara , Uganda
Joined October 2020
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(1) Il y a 3 semaines, juste après la défense de mon DEA à l'@univ_cath_congo, que j'ai eu l'honneur de présenter les résultats de mes recherches sur les stratégies de communication ds la lutte contre la #schistomiase à un public diversifié, lors du lancement de la Phase2 #ATRAP.
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Félicitations @ChantalMokoko qui soutient sa thèse aujourd'hui! 👏👏 Ses recommandations - valoriser des modes de communication du type sapiential (proverbes, contes) - intégrer des détenteurs des savoirs endogènes - implementer des alternatives infrastructurelles durables
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📢In this new paper, we argue that community-based monitoring presents a valuable & sustainable complement to classical programs, especially in remote areas, BUT it also empowers communities & increases disease knowledge! 🙌 congrats @NoeliaVaBh & @jtumusiime90 !
New from researchers at @MbararaUST, @africamuseumbe, and @KU_Leuven: Citizens can help to map putative transmission sites for snail-borne diseases 🔎 plos.io/3vIPTIN
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🎉🐌Just published: Our study, co-authored with @jtumusiime90, reveals how citizen scientists effectively map disease-carrying snails, vital for guiding targeted control efforts in rural SSA! Link: plos.io/3vIPTIN @AtrapU @africamuseumbe @KU_Leuven @HuyseTine @liesjacobs1
New from researchers at @MbararaUST, @africamuseumbe, and @KU_Leuven: Citizens can help to map putative transmission sites for snail-borne diseases 🔎 plos.io/3vIPTIN
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A shoutout to all the fantastic women in our team! Without them no public outreach about our #citizenscience and @AtrapU project at @Scivil_Flanders So grateful 🙏 #InternationalWomensDay2024 @imecVlaanderen @africamuseumbe
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Noelia Valderrama @KU_Leuven @africamuseumbe shares @AtrapU's work on unlocking the potential of citizen science to control and prevent snail-borne diseases🐌 Extensive amount of data Acceptable accuracy Significantly cheaper Empowering communities #Schistosomiasis #BeatNTDs
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Representing the 🐌 team of @HuyseTine at the #TropMed23 conference in Chicago, USA. Watch out for our posters on snail microbiomes and distribution modelling, (19 & 21 Oct) and the talk on Citizen Science validation (22 Oct) @NoeliaVaBh
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A few days have passed since the remarkable Atrap 1 final meeting, and we are still buzzing with excitement! 🚀 It was a fantastic gathering filled with learning and a flood of ideas for Atrap 2. Proud to be part of this awesome project! 🌟 #ATRAP2023 @AtrapU – at Uganda
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David Oguttu and Dr Casim Tolo enjoy David’s education poster for school children in tomorrow’s outreach session @schisto_center @elimin8schisto
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We are about to start our refresher training with the citizen scientists from @UATRAP DrCongo! ATRAP organise un atelier de formation avec les citizen scientists sur la vulgarisation des savoirs scientifiques sur la bilharziose @ChantalMokoko @joulemadinga @africamuseumbe
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We are hiring: long-term postdoc position in Belgium on historical epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, including schistosomiasis. Please spread the word! uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacanc…. Deadline for application: 17/02/2022 @africamuseumbe
Dr @jtumusiime90 @MbararaUST talks to us about #research by #scientists & #citizenscientists in south-western #LakeAlbert #Uganda 📝Monitoring of 🐌in #watercontact sites using 📲#digital platform KoboToolbox @AtrapU #BeatNTDs #BeatSchisto Read: theoryandpractice.citizensci…
Learning from Dr @HuyseTine @africamuseumbe about 💪Action Towards Reducing Aquatic Snail Borne Parasitic Diseases @AtrapU A #citizenscience approach to 🐌& #schistosomiasis research & community-led #disease intervention Find out more here: citizenscienceuganda.info/at… #BeatNTDs
"I am a citizen. I want to serve my community, I want to learn how to control #bilharzia & get skills so I can help with risky #water practices" "I now feel like a scientists & sampling has become my hobby" Mr Cruzestom #citizenscientist #Uganda on joining @AtrapU #CitizenScience
Dr @MercyGloriaA1 @KU_Leuven @africamuseumbe uses #socialscience to #research motivation, barriers & enabling factors of #citizenscience in #Uganda Need to understand #socialcontext in #globalsouth for citizen science in #Africa 👉🐌💪 @AtrapU citizenscienceuganda.info/at… #BeatNTDs
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Our 3rd talk of the "BES: Ecology and Evolution II" session now is from Ruben Schols of the Royal Museum for Central Africa with "On snail-borne hippo #parasites: do artificial lakes and biological invasions pose a burden on Hippopotamus amphibius?" #ParasitesOnline21
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Ruben Schols shows us some very clear and beautiful images of 7 species of snails collected from lakes Kariba (3 species) and Mwenje (4 species) in Zimbabwe. Ruben's work on the hippo parasites is in review but you can find a recent xenomonitoring study at academic.oup.com/trstmh/arti…
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Christine Makia Masong @masongbye @ucac_icy @NTDCOUNTDOWN shares their work on how to achieve equity in #UHC interventions, reviewing who is left behind by neglected tropical disease #NTDs programmes in Cameroon🇨🇲 & how it can inform future programming #BeatSchisto #BeatNTDs #MDA
Read the research here: Chlorination of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3282…
Communities living in endemic regions often rely on parasite-contaminated freshwater bodies💧. Water treatment can provide safe water on a household or community scale. Laura Braun, @LSHTM shares their work on #Chlorination of S. mansoni cercariae. #BeatSchisto #BeatNTDs #WASH
We're kicking off Day2 of the #Schistosomiasis Research Innovation Meeting, focusing on #EarlyCareer researchers & research-in-progress, incl chlorination methods, impact of treatment on #Vaccine responses, identifying #UHC gaps, #Diagnostics developments & more #BeatSchisto
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Head of the #NTDs Unit at @KEMRI_Kenya, Dr @maurice_odiere explains at today's #Schistosomiasis Research Meeting how they used a tablet-based systems to perform abdominal ultrasound in Wester Kenya in a field investigation of #Schisto related morbidity. #BeatSchisto #BeatNTDs