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We are an international Consortium of Experts in #NTDs, with a focus on helminth diseases 🪱: #STHelminthiasis, #strongyloidiasis, #schistosomiasis, #echinococcosis, #taeniasis, #neurocysticercosis and porcine #cysticercosis 👇🏾

CENTD is supported by @Ugent, VLIRUOS, and its members across 26 institutes and including 8 WHO-CCs 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻🫱🏾‍🫲🏿🫱🏻‍🫲🏾

Only one more week until #WorldNTDday and the launch of the official CENTD website 🗓️🙌🏾 #beatNTDs worldntdday.org

Michael Templeton, professor of public health engineering Imperial College London, presenting the relevance of innovative #WASH engineering to #beatNTDs. Bringing together CENTD partners, let's talk about latrines Jimma University - Prof. Zeleke Mekonnen, Dr. Kasahun Eba

While incredible progress has been made, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) continue to thrive but they are preventable or treatable. Working together we can #BeatNTDs #WorldNTDDay #100percentCommitted Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases

Thread 2: World #NTD day is being commemorated globally and in #Ethiopia with the theme: Act now, Act together. Invest in Neglected Tropical Diseases.

#WorldNTDDay putting #ActNow #ActTogether into practice. More than a decade of collaborations on #NTDs Jimma University. Dereje Duguma MD MPH Teshome Gebre VLIRUOS UGent VetMed

Honoured to join #WorldNTDDay in Ethiopia. #trachoma #onchocerciasis #soiltransmittedhelminthias #podoconiosis CENTD @SaraRoose2

Among #NTDs , #STH infections affect 1.5 billion people globally. They impair a child's ability to learn & grow, and cause maternal mortality & anemia. With The Task Force CWW works to support global STH programs and urges leaders to be #100percentCommitted to #BeatNTDs this #WorldNTDDay.

World NTD Day: Act Now, Act Together - Investing in Young African Researchers #globalhealth #NTDs #beatNTDs #Research #smallgrants #capacitybuilding

Africa made significant progress against #NTDs in 2022! #WorldNTDDay   #Benin #Uganda & #Rwanda were validated for the elimination of sleeping sickness as a public health problem. #Malawi & #Togo were validated elimin. of trachoma as a public health problem. 🇪🇹 can do it too!

Today, on #WorldNTDDay, we are especially proud to launch our new website centd.org We act now. We act together. #BeatNTDs

Prof Zeleke Mekonnen commenting on the development of drug resistance in #STH and #schistosomiasis at #WorldNTDDay Jimma University. Proud that he is a partner of #CENTD. Check his profile on centd.org. CENTD

3 facts about #NTDs: ➡️They are caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi & toxins ➡️They are responsible for thousands of preventable deaths every year ➡️They affect the most vulnerable communities, often without access to safe water, safe housing & sanitation #WorldNTDDay

By working together, working across sectors in an integrated manner, and striving for country ownership and accountability of #STH programs, CWW aims to #Stoptheworms and #BeatNTDS to achieve the targets in the World Health Organization (WHO) NTD road map #100percentCommitted #WorldNTDDay

Panel discussion ⁦Jimma University⁩ ⁦NTD world⁩

"By treating children in school, you could increase their lifelong earnings by 40 percent" Founders Pledge interviewed our CEO Wendy Harrison 👉 bit.ly/3uNzZpV #BeatNTDs

Thanks Ian, heartening to think that fluke can be ‘easily overcome’, I’m just not aware of significant protective natural immunity to fluke, at least not in livestock, we’d probably have a vaccine by now otherwise?…