Neglected Tropical Diseases practitioner, All Blacks fan, cyclist, follow Arsenal and Holland, coffee nut, views are my own, retweets don't mean endorsement.
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It World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day. For me focusing at the moment on Bilharzia in Africa which causes children to miss school and debilitating sickness especially in women. warrenlancasterblog.wordpres…
Recently NTD Adviser to landcent.nl/schistosomiasis a social enterprise addressing poverty related diseases with sustainable and paradigm-shifting innovations. With partners producing cost effective RDT that improves reliability of population-level surveying and individual diagnosis
Making steady progress to eliminate bilharzia and intestinal worms.
Today, @RwandaNGOForum , in partnership with @RBCRwanda and supported by @TheENDFund , convened a Stakeholders’ Validation and Dissemination workshop focused on WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) and Social Behaviour Change (SBC) to interrupt the transmission of Bilharzia and Intestinal Worms by 2027 in @BugeseraDistr and @RuhangoDistrict
The workshop highlighted key findings from a needs assessment, identifying gaps in WASH infrastructure and communities most at risk of Soil-Transmitted Helminths (STH) and Schistosomiasis (SCH) due to poor sanitation. Stakeholders engaged in discussions on IoT-adapted interventions and co-creation strategies with local communities to enhance ownership and commitment to action.
Together, we can foster collaborative efforts to improve hygiene, promote safe sanitation and protect vulnerable communities.
#beatNTDs #EndNTDs2030 #WASHAgainstNTDs #CleanWaterFightsNTDs #Act4NTDs #InvestInNTDs
@RwandaHealth @RwandaAgri @EnvironmentRw @RwandaLocalGov @RwandaInfra @Uni_Rwanda @CityofKigali @Rwanda_Child @wasac_rwanda
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Peter with a little help from friends, put Neglected Tropical Diseases on the Global Health agenda. As the Chair of the Technical Advisory Council, Peter was instrumental in the pursuit of excellence at END Fund. He was always reachable for sound advice. Congratulations Peter.
Dr. @PeterHotez is one of @TIME's 100 most influential people in #health in 2024. Congratulations! @BCM_TropMed @BCMGradSchool @BCM_MSTP @BCM_GradDiverse time.com/6968402/peter-hotez…
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This is a very welcome expansion of the ambitious goals to tackle these vector borne diseases on the African continent. Even with such significant funding these diseases can still be truly referred to as neglected because they affect primarily subsistence & displaced communities.
After an eventful #RLMForum2023, we are celebrating the expansion of the Reaching the Last Mile Fund, which will now take aim at eliminating #RiverBlindness and #LymphaticFilariasis in Africa. Check out the full announcement #NTDs #BeatNTDs bit.ly/46K90P7
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Fantastic news
This is a monumental moment in the effort to end neglected tropical diseases. Thank you to all of our partners who believe that we will achieve a world free from neglected tropical diseases.
reachingthelastmile.com/pled…
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Wonderful to see the vision of care and cure expanding beyond Idjwi to also the Kivus and wider in DRC. It is a treasured memory to have been with AGW and @TheENDFund on Idjwi and super to see a photo of their work featuring a CHW with deworming medicine.
It’s live! We are excited to share with you Amani’s new website. We are taking you on a digital journey to meet the people whose lives have been changed by the Amani healthcare. Visit our new website. amaniglobalworks.org/
#AmaniGlobalWorks #AmaniImpact #AmaniStories
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That does not sound good - 25km from ‘normal’ habitat.
With the @schisto_center snail team at Lake Albert and have detected infected Biomphalaria on the escarpment ~25km inland from the lake…the epidemiology is changing
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It’s world Neglected Diseases Day. Diseases that affect people who are resource poor and rely on subsistence agriculture. Many of the sicknesses are vector borne. 5 affecting the most people can be treated and prevented with the distribution of donated medicine - see @TheENDFund
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There were recently articles in Financial Times and Guardian about effective altruism. EA has contributed significantly to the scaling of deworming programs for school children. I penned a blog about my experience. warrenlancasterblog.wordpres…
Eliminating river blindness in Africa is advancing rapidly. A new blog about one of the challenges of determining when this is achieved in an endemic area. warrenlancasterblog.wordpres…
Catch me if you can warrenlancasterblog.wordpres…
Annie, I know Idjwi well and END Fund worked closely with Amani Global Works for some years on NTDs. Fantastic you are going and I am sure you will make an important contribution.
I am about to leave for Idjwi to join Congolese team. It takes one 3hr ferry + 2 boats to reach this remote island in eastern Congo! Thank you for the wonderful support— we have enough medicines to treat 700 profoundly neglected children. You can help, too.gofundme.com/f/help-one-thou…
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Very sad to hear this news. Merle she kept us focused on people affected by NTDs. My sympathy to her family.
My heart is heavy hearing of the passing of Dr. Mwele Malecela. She was an inspiration, a guiding light, a fierce and compassionate activist, and a treasured friend. The global movement to end NTDs would not have achieved so much without her. I will miss her dearly. 💔
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It’s World NTD Day! Dr.Adeyi at the WB recently challenged endemic countries to domestically finance NTD treatment as a response to cuts to the UKAid NTD budget. Here are examples of financial incentives to do so @TheENDFund warrenlancasterblog.wordpres…
Texas scientists’ new Covid-19 vaccine is cheaper, easier to make and patent-free. Peter was also one of the early champions of Neglected Tropical Diseases. What a fantastic contribution to global health. theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
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The END Fund posted my latest blog about what I am calling the Cinderella schistosomiasis surveying diagnostic. end.org/still-waiting-for-mi…
Wee blog about next step in eliminating River Blindness end.org/another-step-forward…
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