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How Worm Warriors Are Beating An Unbeatable Worm
11 August 2016
Article about “breaking the life cycle” of onchocerca volvulu, the parasitic worm that causes onchocerciasis, commonly called river blindness. NPR, August 11, 2016.
Resources and Tools
Mectizan and Onchocerciasis: a Decade of Accomplishment and Prospects for the Future; the Evolution of a drug into a Development Concept
A collection of scientific and informational articles on the impact of Merck’s drug Mectizan (ivermectin) on onchocerciasis (known commonly as river blindness).
Resources and Tools
Data Quality Assessment (DQA) for NTDs
Working with the World Health Organization, RTI adapted existing methodologies to develop a tool for assessing the quality of data for NTDs which focuses exclusively on (1) verifying the quality of reported data, and (2) assessing the underlying data management and reporting systems for standard program-level output indicators to validate the reported achievements within the health information monitoring and reporting system, as well as identify areas that need strengthening.
Resources and Tools
A toolkit for integrated vector management in sub-Saharan Africa (English and French versions)
This toolkit is designed to help national and regional program managers coordinate across sectors to design and run large IVM programs.
Toolkit Vector Management EN (5.49 MB)Resources and Tools
NTD Data for Action Guide
The purpose of this guide is to shift from data review to data use. ENVISION, June 2016.
NTD_data_for_action_guide (304.26 KB)News
Dr. Tony Ukety receives the 2016 Mectizan Award
12 May 2016
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Tony Ukety, former Coordinator for the Onchocerciasis Elimination NGDO Group was selected as the 2016 recipient of the Mectizan Award.
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Dr. Adrian Hopkins Receives Prince Abdulaziz Bin Ahmad Al Saud Prevention of Blindness Award
10 May 2016
Top: Dr. Adrian Hopkins receives Prince Abdulaziz Bin Ahmad Al Saud Prevention of Blindness Award in Bahrain from the President of the Middle East Africa Council on Opthalmology, Ahmed Abdulla Ahmed
Bottom: Dr.
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Merck & Co., Inc. and the Mectizan Donation Program Donate $1 Million to the END Fund for Efforts to Help Eliminate River Blindness in Africa
04 May 2016
Merck & Co., Inc. and the MDP Donate $1 Million to the END Fund to Help Eliminate River Blindness in Africa
Since 1987 Merck & Co.
Resources and Tools
Guide de la planification axés sur les données de MTN
NTD Data for Action Guide (French version). ENVISION, March 2016.
NTD_data_for_action_guide_french (313.24 KB)WHO Guide
WHO Integrated NTD Programme Managers’ Course
This course provides NTD programme managers at the national or high sub-national level with an overview and essential knowledge of the following concepts listed as modules below.
Resources and Tools
Training for TIPAC (Tool for Integrated Planning and Costing): English, French, Portuguese, Bhahasa, and Spanish versions
The Tool for Integrated Planning and Costing, or TIPAC (pronounced “tee-pack”), is a Microsoft Excel-based program that helps users accurately estimate the costs and funding gaps of public health programs.
Resources and Tools
Data Quality Assessment (DQA) for NTDs
Working with the World Health Organization, RTI has developed a tool for assessing the quality of data for NTDs which focuses exclusively on
(1) verifying the quality of reported data, and (2) assessing the underlying data management and reporting systems for standard program-level output indicators to validate the reported achievements within the health information monitoring and reporting system, as well as identify areas that need strengthening.News
The Story Behind The River Blindness Story: Itching, Weeding, Snipping
16 January 2016
NPR’s Jason Beaubien is interviewed regarding his journey to Ghana, where yearly doses of ivermectin have dramatically reduced the scourge of river blindness, a disease caused by parasitic worms that can rob people of their sight.
News
What A Difference A Drug Makes In The Fight Against River Blindness
12 January 2016
An article describing the importance of and complexity in distributing ivermectin annually to people affected by onchocerciasis. NPR, January 14, 2016.
Resources and Tools
Onchocerciasis (CDC Resource Page)
CDC Factsheet on onchocerciasis (river blindness). CDC, 2015.
WHO Guide
Training in Monitoring and Epidemiological Assessment of Mass Drug Administration for Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis: Learner’s Guide (Portuguese version)
Learner’s Guide for the training program (Portuguese version). WHO, 2015.
Learners Guide Portuguese (3.14 MB)Report
Responding to Failed Transmission Assessment Surveys
Report of ad hoc meeting, convened to respond to requests by national lymphatic filariasis elimination programmes for the best available guidance on: (i) investigating failures of transmission assessment surveys (TAS); and (ii) identifying corrective actions to both prevent and respond to failures.
Responding Failed TAS-eng (1.20 MB)