👩‍🎓Meet Prof. Lisa Dikomitis, our Co-Principal Investigator at ECLIPSE!

📑Take a moment to read the following article and learn about what she's up to, and her perspectives on conducting research and involving patients and the public in research.

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📽️Sneak peek from the Guiné Festival in Boqueirao, Salvador!

This event was planned in collaboration with the community and Brazil ECLIPSE researchers.

Stay tuned for more updates!
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📢 #WeAreECLIPSE Sri Lanka team recently conducted a CL #awareness session for public health inspectors & public health midwives. As grassroots-level healthcare workers in the healthcare system, it was important that they are aware of CL.

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📢Here's a sneak peek of #WeAreECLIPSE Ethiopia team, conducting #capacitybuilding training for laboratory technicians at health facilities with CL treatments

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❓Are you familiar with Faith in Bom Jesus da Lapa and samba de roda? These are ancient traditions within the Quilombola Community of Boqueirão.

📽️Here's a sneak peek from a procession that took place in this territory which concluded with samba!
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Did you know that #WeAreECLIPSE researchers conceptualised the #psychosocialburden of #CutaneousLeishmaniasis in Sri Lanka?

This was crucial for grasping the true burden of CL and developing interventions to reduce it.
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ℹ️Get to know the Quilombola community of Boqueirão, Brazil where the 'The Guiné - ECLIPSE Festival of Art, Culture and Natural Knowledge' will take place from 27-28th April

🌟Keep in touch to get to know about 'The Guiné' in the coming weeks!

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#WeAreECLIPSE Sri Lanka community leaders led an awareness campaign, reaching every household in the 3 ECLIPSE communities. They mapped those who are currently taking/have completed CL treatment & those who have suspected lesions

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The Ethiopia team of #WeAreECLIPSE organised a consultative workshop involving leadership and staff from five hospitals in Tigray housing CL treatment centres, alongside district health officers, community health workers, COPs, & media.

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Our Ethiopian #WeAreECLIPSE team visited #BetMaria Primary School, heavily impacted by #war & #drought . The team engaged in a discussion about CL (Gizwa) with the community.

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▶️Throwback to the #WeAreECLIPSE scientific meeting, Sri Lanka

Day 01: Some team members met in person for the first time after three years of online interactions. We shared our experiences & lessons learnt from working with the communities and with each other
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📢The newly opened #CL treatment centre at Hagereselam Hospital in Ethiopia has captured the media's interest, receiving coverage on #DW #TV , featuring analysis from Dr. Filmon, a member of the #WeAreECLIPSE team

📺Time stamp 12:00 - 26:20.
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🎉Happy #InternationalWomensDay2024

🤝Standing united at #WeAreECLIPSE to reduce discrimination & enhance women's inclusion across all spheres of our work

🌟Join us in celebrating women worldwide
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Professor Professor Lisa Dikomitis sharing results of the #WeAreECLIPSE ECLIPSE programme at the global #mentalhealth symposium at Keele University

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📰Updates from Ethiopia

Here's a glimpse of #WeAreECLIPSE Ethiopia team providing a series of training for grassroots communities to raise CL awareness and reduce stigma

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🇱🇰Padaviya ECLIPSE community hosted a #CommunityLeishmaniasisDay where school children performed a street drama for CL awareness & distributed leaflets

📖They also launched a book on religious traditions & beliefs of the community, co-authored by community members
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🇱🇰 Exciting day for our Sri Lankan team!

🩺They are conducting a professional development session for medical officers in Anuradhapura,discussing all aspects of CL
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📢Today our Sri Lankan PhD student Asitha will be talking to a local radio channel about his book 'Tales of sandflies along the way/මග දිගට වැලි මැසි කතා'

📖This book was written based on his research on #CL & effective #communicationmethods
Congratulations Asitha! #WeAreECLIPSE

📢Exciting news!

🎭Catch the #streetdrama performed by school children from one of our communities in Sri Lanka #raisingawareness on #CL , airing on KidsTV, this Saturday!

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