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Action Towards Reducing Aquatic Snail Borne Parasitic Diseases (ATRAP) is a collaborative project between MUST and RMCA fighting #Schistosomiasis
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ATRAP Citizen scientists from the Kagadi district have arrived in Entebbe today! ๐ They're brimming with enthusiasm, diligently fine-tuning the last details for the ATRAP 1 final meeting! ๐๐ Stay tuned for more thrilling updates! #ATRAP2023 The AfricaMuseum Mbarara University
Exciting news! ๐ค The citizen scientists had a wonderful time meeting the Belgian Ambassador. Everyone is excited to start the kick off the ATRAP 1 final meeting! ๐๐ #ATRAP2023 #CitizenScience Mbarara University The AfricaMuseum
Enlightening talk by Casim Umba Tolo, the PI from the Ugandan side of ATRAP! ๐บ๐ฌ ๐ Exciting insights on how ATRAP positively impacted communities, addressing bilharzia, and boosting capacity building. ๐๐ช #CommunityImpact #ATRAP2023 #Bilharzia The AfricaMuseum Mbarara University
๐ Eva November, Head of Development Cooperation at the The AfricaMuseum in Belgium, is thrilled to witness the incredible results achieved by the ATRAP team! ๐คฉ๐ฑ #ATRAP2023 #DevelopmentCooperation #ifyouwanttogofargotogether
๐ง๐ช The Belgian Ambassador in Uganda, Hughes Chantry, extends heartfelt gratitude to our citizen scientists for their pivotal role in collecting crucial data to combat snail-borne diseases! ๐๐ Together, we're making a difference. ๐ชThe AfricaMuseum #ATRAP2023
A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU ALL: @ToloUmbax lies jacobs Mercy Gloria ASHEPET Maxson Anyolitho Julius Tumusiime Viola Nilah Nyakato Germain KAPOUR Karolien Poels Mbarara University The AfricaMuseum Namirembe Daisy @fay_wa_aye Cecilia Wangari Wambui ๐ฅณ๐
Representing the ๐ team of Tine Huyse at the #TropMed23 conference in Chicago, USA. Watch out for our posters on snail microbiomes and distribution modelling, (19 & 21 Oct) and the talk on Citizen Science validation (22 Oct) Noelia Valderrama B.
๐คฉ #citizenscience to #BeatNTDs ! Check out BMC blog by Noelia Valderrama B. on ATRAP project to empower #community members to: ๐บ๏ธ&๐งfor #schistosomiasis & #fasciolosis snails in their communities. ๐disease surveillance. ๐ community awareness. blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2023โฆ
ATRAP publicity at ECTMIH2023 in Utrecht during a great session organised by Helena Greter and Salome Durr from Swiss TPH featuring also the inspiring work of Stefanie Knopp and our colleagues from N'Djamena in Chad
Our ATRAP PhD student Mercy Gloria ASHEPET further promoting the citizen science model for experiential learning on diseases and disease vectors
A shoutout to all the fantastic women in our team! Without them no public outreach about our #citizenscience and ATRAP project at Scivil So grateful ๐ #InternationalWomensDay2024 imec in Vlaanderen The AfricaMuseum
๐๐Just published: Our study, co-authored with Julius Tumusiime, reveals how citizen scientists effectively map disease-carrying snails, vital for guiding targeted control efforts in rural SSA! Link: plos.io/3vIPTIN ATRAP The AfricaMuseum KU Leuven Tine Huyse lies jacobs
๐ขIn this new paper, we argue that community-based monitoring presents a valuable & sustainable complement to classical programs, especially in remote areas, BUT it also empowers communities & increases disease knowledge! ๐ congrats Noelia Valderrama B. & Julius Tumusiime !
At this year's #EMOP2024, our PhD student Cecilia Wangari Wambui won the Young Scientist Award, the Audience Award and the 2024 #FAWPAR Journal Award for her oral presentation on qPCR-based environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring of African human schistosome parasites. #Schistosomiasis๐ชฑ