Kick Off #YawsCoalition Kingsley Asiedu On current knowledge #Yaws epidemiology: lack good data many countries

Congratulations Professor Dorothy Yeboah-Manu on your appointment by the University Council as the first female Director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research. She takes over from Professor Abraham Anang who retires from active service on 31st July 2021.

Here we are! The @CURE_TREP Unit aims to identify clinical solutions for #treponemal_diseases that affect vulnerable populations and to contribute to the fight against #SARSCoV2. Check out our website👉buff.ly/3llRqwq

Our latest paper is hot off the press of The Lancet Reg Health-West Pacific. Combined #MDA for multiple #NTDS is safe and can increase the efficacy of public health interventions. Read more here: buff.ly/3mRCpDq Oriol Mitjà Fight Trachoma Fundació ”la Caixa” Michael Marks

Camila G. Beiras, PhD has travelled to Ghana in the framework of the 'Lamp4Yaws' project, in collaboration with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and funded by EDCTP. She tells her experience, equally challenging and humorous, in the second entry of our blog: buff.ly/3cDg7zh

New World Health Organization (WHO) course on #Yaws Available free bit.ly/3yZi9nF put together Camila G. Beiras, PhD. Hopefully useful to programmes clinicians & academics

We proudly welcome this oustanding tool to advance the fight against yaws! buff.ly/3qqvCkH

Thank you BBC News Africa for highlighting the song #Ogenda which speaks of the atrocities of General Museveni and the determination of the people of Uganda to rid themselves of the brutal regime. We shall overcome!

Culminem la feina de 5 anys amb un estudi al NEJM: L'estudi més gran mai realitzat sobre el pian ens apropa a l'eradicació. Ens recorda que la ciència per al control de les infeccions és forta, i que hem d’invertir en estructures per a amenaces futures. bit.ly/3EVQDsB

NEJM World Health Organization (WHO) Oriol Mitjà Hosp. Germans Trias @FLSida Biomedicina BCN Hospital Clínic CaixaResearch Fundación ”la Caixa” Camila G. Beiras, PhD Michael Marks Un estudio publicado en NEJM corrobora la mayor eficacia de una nueva estrategia para la eliminación del #pian en comparación con la establecida por la World Health Organization (WHO) para avanzar hacia la desaparición efectiva de la enfermedad. 🔗 ow.ly/pSn950HpRUU

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) continue to affect 1.7 billion people around the world but ending them within our lifetime is posible. Since 2010, we work to accelerate the end of #yaws. Ours is a story of success, read more here: buff.ly/3Gq9BZn #WorldNTDDay

Incredible progress has been made to #BeatNTDs, but if we are to reach the World Health Organization (WHO) roadmap goals we must all be #100percentCommitted to delivering on the Kigali Declaration on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This #WorldNTDDay join the movement: 100percentcommitted.com

NEW Research—Methylene blue-treated convalescent plasma did not prevent progression from mild to severe illness and did not reduce viral load in outpatients with #COVID19 From the CONV-ERT Group bit.ly/3gD9wac

Our latest paper has just been published at The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. We establish that #convalescent_plasma does not prevent progression from mild to severe #COVID19. The quest for affordable treatments against SARS-CoV-2 continues! Read more here: buff.ly/3uBHFz9

Congratulations Andrea Alemany @Pere_millat and team!

Mi opinión sobre lo de Will Smith es que la Antártida ha registrado temperaturas 40C más altas de lo normal y que científicos de todo el mundo están dejando sus empleos para lanzarse al activismo climático.

Esta foto para mi es el TERROR. La madre sin cuerpo, sin cara. Solo unos muslos abiertos dando luz a un mundo de oscuridad, en medio de caras y risas de euforia por el fruto del vientre explotado sin ninguna reflexión ética, sin empatía, exultantes #distopia #Elcuentodelacriada

Dos meses y medio después de la acción del Congreso, 14 compañeras fueron detenidas y puestas en libertad con cargos (daños al edificio e interrupción de la sesión). Detenidas por dar la voz de alarma, de forma pacífica, por la emergencia climática. #RebelionCientifica2Radio3

Diagnostics are key to #Yaws eradication but our survey bit.ly/3BDYzAg demonstrates limited availability in all endemic countries

Voy con mi hija de siete años al centro d salud Infanta Mercedes. La doctora duda sobre si lo que tiene es una gripe o una neumonía. Podría descartar la gripe con un test, pero la Comunidad de Madrid no se los proporciona. Lo compro en la farmacia