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What keeps Machine Learning research for NTDs in Africa concentrated on a few diseases, and what would enable meaningful translation into practice? www.nature.com/articles/s43... Nature
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Neglected tropical diseases affect more than one billion people worldwide, creating cycles of poverty and preventing people from achieving their full potential. Yet they are preventable, treatable, and can be eliminated. This #WorldNTDDay, let’s #UniteActEliminate to #BeatNTDs
🎉Congratulations to #Libya, validated by @WHO as the 28th country eliminating #trachoma as a public health problem! www.who.int/news/item/18... @WHOEMRO
Taking the opportunity of the #OneHealthSummit to highlight the fundamental link between #NTDs, animal and environmental health and revisit this important session connecting #schistosomiasis and #water contact: youtu.be/OVmMhh7jLT4?... #OneHealth #ISNTDConnect
#WHA79 please join the @isntd.org Event:
🦟Arboviruses: Shaking or shaping the future of global health?
👉May 19, 8.30-10.00, Geneva
👉https://www.isntd.org/wha79-arboviruses
#dengue #chikungunya #TBE #Oropouche #yellowfever
Starting soon! ISNTD Bites 2026 meeting: presentations, panel discussions and an innovations forum on vector-borne Neglected tropical Diseases.
👉Strengthening Health Systems for a New Era in Vector-Borne Diseases
👉https://tinyurl.com/isntd-bites-2026
Congratulations to #Chile, the first country in the Americas to receive @who.int verification for eliminating #leprosy!
www.who.int/news/item/04...
Are schistosome hybrids an emerging public health threat? Find out more as the HUGS project wraps up at @bspparasitology.bsky.social
lstmed.ac.uk/news/farewel... @lstmnews.bsky.social
The #OneHealthSummit is an excellent opportunity to highlight the fundamental link between #NTDs, animal and environmental health and revisit this important session connecting #taeniasis #pork and #epilepsy: youtu.be/Yg5aAgVVLt4 #OneHealth #ISNTDConnect @ilri.org @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
APPG on Malaria and NTDs
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On #WorldNTDDay, we shine a light on female genital schistosomiasis (FGS).
FGS is caused by a parasitic infection. It's easily treatable and preventable but often unrecognised & misdiagnosed, with many women receiving the wrong treatment.
Learn more: bit.ly/FIG-schisto
Galiwango et al. present a scoping review of machine learning applications for neglected tropical disease control in Africa. They show that current research is concentrated on geospatial prediction, w...
WHO, together with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), congratulates Chile for becoming the first country in the Americas – and the second globally – to be officially verified as having elimi...
WHO today announced that Libya has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, a landmark victory for public health in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region. This hard-won achievement protects future...
