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Videos
Professor Stephen Hawking delivers keynote speech on NTDs
In his speech, Professor Hawking highlighted the work and legacy of his father, Dr Frank Hawking who, in the 1950s, was one of the first people to conduct research into and develop treatment for an NTD known as lymphatic filariasis (LF).
Resources and Tools
Transmission Assessment Survey Sample Builder
The Survey Sample Builder is a tool designed to help program managers with their Transmission Assessment Surveys. The SSB program can be used to automate the calculations for determining appropriate survey strategy.
News
Carter Center Slideshow | Neighbors Help Neighbors Combat River Blindness
08 January 2018
A slideshow highlighting a few of the thousands of volunteers trained as community-directed distributors for the River Blindness Elimination Program in Nigeria.
News
Story Map | Hope for a Healthy Nigeria
30 December 2017
Photo presentation on the work to eliminate river blindness in Nigeria. The Carter Center, 2017.
WHO Report
Towards universal coverage for preventive chemotherapy for Neglected Tropical Diseases: Guidance for assessing “who is being left behind and why”
WHO and partners are advancing the mainstreaming project Integrating a gender, equity and human rights focus into national programming on preventive chemotherapy and transmission (PCT) control for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) during 2016-2019.
WHO-FWC-17.3-eng (1.02 MB)WHO Guide
PC Joint Application Package – version 3. What’s new?
The WHO Joint Application Package is submitted to WHO by countries applying for donated medicines for Mass Drug Administration to control and/or eliminate lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, and soil transmitted helmthiasis.
WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
Progress report on the elimination of human onchocerciasis 2016-2017
Progress report on the elimination of human onchocerciasis, 2016–2017. Weekly Epidemiological Record. WHO, 2017.
Progress Report on Elimination of Onchocerciasis 2016 to 2017 (746.30 KB)WHO Guide
Guideline: Alternative mass drug administration regimens to eliminate lymphatic filariasis
WHO Guideline ‒ Alternative mass drug administration regimens to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. 2017.
Guideline Alternative MDA Regimens LF (1.53 MB)WHO Report
Crossing the Billion: Preventive chemotherapy for neglected tropical diseases
Preventive chemotherapy – one of the interventions deployed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to combat at least five Neglected Tropical Diseases – involves administering six medicines in seven different combinations, making it possible to treat more than one disease at a time.
Crossing the Billion (11.52 MB)WHO Report
Water, sanitation and hygiene to combat neglected tropical diseases: Initial lessons from project implementation
This paper compiles examples from eighteen countries to summarize emerging successes and challenges in the coordination of WASH and NTD programmes.
WHO-FWC-WSH-17.02-eng (699.02 KB)News
Uganda on the Road to Elimination of River Blindness/Onchocerciasis
13 December 2017
For the third time, the Uganda Ministry of Health declares elimination of river blindness transmission in parts of the country.
uganda-ministry-of-health-2017 (476.56 KB)News
Sightsavers documents the billionth treatment for river blindness: a photo essay published in The Guardian
12 December 2017
Please enjoy this article and photo essay published in The Guardian commemorating Sightsavers’ billionth treatment with Mectizan® for river blindness.
News
Merck Commemorates 30 Years of MECTIZAN® Donation Program Progress: Program Expanded to Reach Additional 100 Million People Annually for Lymphatic Filariasis in Support of New, Evidence-Based WHO Guidelines
30 November 2017
Merck announces an expansion of the MECTIZAN® Donation Program (MDP) to reach up to an additional 100 million people per year through 2025 as part of the global effort to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF).
MerckNewsroomHome-MerckCommemorates30YearsofMECTIZAN®DonationProgramProgress-2017-11-30 (49.29 KB)News
His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan Launches Reaching the Last Mile Fund to Raise $100 Million
30 November 2017
His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan launches “Reaching the Last Mile Fund” to raise $100 million. Press Release, The End Fund, November 2017.
News
How Plateau, Nasarawa States eliminated Lymphatic filariasis
28 November 2017
An article on Nigeria’s fight to eliminate one of the most debilitating NTDs in the world. Vanguard Media Limited, November 28, 2017.
News
Q&A: What needs to be done to eliminate river blindness in Africa
16 November 2017
Question & Answer interview of Frank O. Richards, who directs the Carter Center’s river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, and malaria programs.
News
New $100M fund to eradicate river blindness and lymphatic filariasis
15 November 2017
Enjoy this article on a $100 million fund launched by Abu Dhabi’s crown prince and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to eliminate river blindness and lymphatic filariasis from key countries in Africa and the Middle East.
News
River blindness: shifting from prevention to surveillance and elimination
12 November 2017
Enjoy this news article covering how the world is benefiting from years of painstaking work, mainly of villagers and volunteers, to eliminate river blindness (onchocerciasis), a parasitic infection transmitted by repeated bites of the black fly which breeds in fast-flowing waters.