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The federal government, in collaboration with Sightsavers Nigeria and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has taken steps to ...
He noted that transmission of Lymphatic Filariasis have been interrupted in 379 LGAs, while the Onchocerciasis Elimination ...
The Federal Government on Wednesday said progress has been recorded in eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases, with ...
AS African nations gathered in Addis Ababa last week for a pivotal workshop on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), a stark ...
The Federal Government has announced major progress in the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), with ...
AgyeiAccra, July 02, GNA – Hope for Future Generations, a non-governmental organisation, and the Ghana Health Service have unveiled phase II of a project to scale-up community-led response to end Skin ...
Three years after the launch of the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), health officials and advocacy groups warn that decreased funding could jeopardise progress against these ...
Benue State government has budgeted N700million to tackle neglected tropical diseases. The north central state is ...
The Trump Administration's cuts to foreign aid and scientific research have led to the termination of public health efforts ...
NTDs are parasitic and bacterial diseases that typically have complex, unfamiliar names — like "onchocerciasis," "lymphatic filariasis," "schistosomiasis," and "human African trypanosomiasis ...
For close to two decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development has partnered with countries around the world to combat neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs. The term refers to a group of ...
The loss of federal funding for combating NTDs means more than just losing government dollars, according to Juliana Soares Linn, FHI 360's senior director for infectious disease.