Today we celebrate Niger's success in eliminating river blindness. A new Dalberg analysis reports $2.3b in unlocked economic activity in Niger through this achievement. END Fund is proud to support this milestone alongside @RLMglobalhealth محمد بن زايد Gates Foundation

We’ve built an incredible organization in the Gates Foundation over two decades and I’m excited about the next chapter in our history. Our new board members will help us build a world where every person has an opportunity to lead a healthy, productive life b-gat.es/3fY1Sqt

The Kenyatta Convention Center in Nairobi and the Kigali Convention Center in Rwanda are lit with purple and orange tonight to mark #WorldNTDDay! More than 100 buildings and monuments around the world will commemorate this day.

In Nigeria, a diverse coalition of businesses, government agencies, local NGOs and even national football players are working together to end neglected tropical diseases. Find out more: end.org/uniting-divers…

The global health and NTD communities have lost a visionary and a leader. Read our reflection on Dr. Mwele’s enormous contributions to the fight against NTDs, to women & girls, and to global health: bit.ly/3BeawLj

💻WEBINAR OPPORTUNITY💻 The LSHTM TB Centre are hosting a free online 'Decolonising Global Health Workshop' on 22 Feb 2022 11:00 - 14:45 GMT. Guest speakers including Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo, Moses Bockarie & our very own Prof Tumani Corrah KBE👏 Find out more👇lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/eve…

We are hiring! We have two open positions: 1. Communications Associate on our Public Affairs team. 2. Technical Advisor for our Visceral Leishmaniasis Initiative. Learn more and apply: jobs.lever.co/end

Wonderful to be in the company of such an engaged grouping of people who are committed to Africa's future #endNTDs #eflearningsummit #worldwithoutntds

The international media have stopped associating images of people of colour with the monkeypox virus. This is why: theconversation.com/whats-in-a-nam…

We are excited to announce $161M in commitments with our partners to achieve a world free from neglected tropical diseases by 2030! #KigaliSummit Learn more about this commitment from Tsitsi Masiyiwa, Vice chair of the END Fund's board.

For our sister Mwele Malecela, in her honor WHO is establishing the Mwele Malecela Mentorship Programme for Women in NTDs. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus orakoze!

EDCTP track record on equity deserves having light shone on it - 20 years in partnership, building #research capacity for clinical trials addressing burden of disease: diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of existing and emerging #infections in Africa

At WHS 2022 Berlin. Case for SaLone’s efforts in health for women, girls, and Adolsc including the HPV Vac and C/Cancer elimination, Safe Motherhood/Reduction of Mat deaths, Hands Off our Girls & Radical Inclusion all initiatives the world admires SL for ⁦⁦⁦Barram

Today, every donation to the END Fund will be TRIPLED (up to $320k)! #GivingTuesday This means, $10 will help treat 60 people for neglected tropical diseases; $100 will reach 600 people; and $1,000 will reach 6,000 people! classy.org/give/203703/#!…

Last Monday marked a busy #WorldNTDDay. Among the many celebrations, The END Fund, World Health Organization (WHO) and @RLMglobalhealth cohosted an exhibition of Reframing Neglect, photography series directed by aida muluneh. Click below for all the highlights. bit.ly/3x27qc5

Our 2nd Stakeholder Workshop 2023 just started. We will exploit & analyse the potential and advantages of collaboration in #personalisedmedicine between Africa & Europe. The final outcome will be an Action Plan for EU-Africa collaboration in the field. #ICPerMedfamily

Quote of the day "I could not believe how quickly Africa scaled genomics, it took 48h to locally sequence Marburg virus in West-Africa, so differently to previous Ebola Epidemics, I thought that would take a decade to get there, and now we are here!" Prof. Moses Bockarie EDCTP

#StayTuned as our Director of International Cooperation Africa & Head of Africa Office Moses Bockarie will present on #20years of EU-Africa collaboration through EDCTP EU-AFRICA PerMed 2nd Stakeholder workshop tomorrow ➡️euafrica-permed.eu/2nd-stakeholde…

Delighted to see great support for NTDs from government of Sierra Leone. Well done Austin Demby !

Today on World NTD Day, we mark a period of renewed efforts to end lymphatic filariasis (LF) and onchocerciasis. In this article with Mrs Tsitsi Masiyiwa, we explore the reasons behind our optimism for eliminating LF and onchocerciasis in Africa. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid…