Laura Merrill
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Healthy planet, healthy people, for all. Rebuild from COVID-19. @DNDi RT ≠ endorsement.
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Prof. Sir Chris Whitty & Prof. Charlotte Watts emphasized the progress in #NTDs research over 30 yrs @ #RSTMH2023. Positive science translated into action by policymakers has transformed the outlook on NTDs. #RSTMH2023 Department of Health and Social Care EDCTP World Bank Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative Dr Luis Pizarro
Great to be in Geneva at lunchtime today to fly the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative flag with colleagues #DNDi@20
Flying the flag for people with neglected diseases! 🏳️ From today until Sunday 21 October, Geneva’s Mont-Blanc bridge is adorned with DNDi flags to commemorate our 20 years of #InnovatingTogether for the most neglected. #BestScienceforAll International Geneva
Huge congratulations to Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Mycetoma Research Center, Eisai Global, and other partners on finding this promising new treatment for #mycetoma! An important breakthrough in treating this debilitating disease theguardian.com/global-develop…
Visite ce matin au laboratoire THA (tripanosomasie humaine africaine) à Dubreka, une collaboration entre le Programme National de Lutte contre les Maladies Tropicales Negligées🇬🇳, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (avec soutien 💰 🇬🇧), IRD.fr. Un vrai succès avec l’élimination du THA en 🇬🇳 sur L’horizon
Congratulations👏 to @dndi, Sanofi & HAT-r-ACC consortium on important news 📢that fexinidazole 💊for the treatment of acute #sleepingsickness has received a positive opinion by EU Medicines Agency. FCDO Research, APPG on Malaria and NTDs , Charlotte Watts, John Marshall
Looking forward to this morning's UK House of Commons Westminster Hall debate on the UK's role in ending #malaria and #NTDs, with Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office the answering Department. You can watch the debate live from 9.30am (GMT) here 👉 bit.ly/3S9oQPr
Fantastic to see such an energising and thoughtful debate about tackling #NTDs in UK Parliament yesterday. MPs across the house spoke passionately about the need for sustainable R&D funding. hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-0…
UK Parliament Jim Shannon MP Catherine West Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP Wendy Morton MP James Sunderland Chris Law MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Thank you Patrick Grady for tabling the debate and highlighting the role of R&D in improving the lives of vulnerable people. “It is the poorest, most vulnerable and marginalised people in remote communities, particularly women and girls, who are affected most by these diseases.”
UK Parliament Jim Shannon MP Catherine West Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP Wendy Morton MP James Sunderland Chris Law MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Patrick Grady “DNDi has developed 13 treatments for six deadly diseases, and those are already saving millions of lives.” Anne-Marie Trevelyan Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spoke to the real world impact of R&D. Sustainable funding is vital to develop urgently-needed treatments for neglected patients. #beatNTDs
📢On #WorldNTDDay 🌍we are proud to celebrate with our partners 🤝TDR, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Coalition for Operational Research on NTDs on their successes in research 🔬helping to reduce the burden of @NTDs and #BeatNTDs. APPG on Malaria and NTDs FCDO Research
Celebrating the excellent work of all our award holders and partners researching and tackling neglected tropical diseases #NTDs NTDs Research Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ECLIPSE UK Coalition against NTDs APPG on Malaria and NTDs and many more 🌍🙌🏿
On #WorldNTDDay, our Co-Chair, Lord Trees, our APPG and UK Coalition against NTDs co-hosted an event in House of Lords to raise awareness of NTDs in UK Parliament, the need to #UniteActEliminate to #BeatNTDs, to draw attention to the disproportionate impact on women and girls... 🧵👇
Dinu Guruge 🇱🇰, an epidemiologist in Sri Lanka working with Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative's Dengue Global Programme, spoke to the impact of #dengue outbreaks, including on women and children, the difficulty for health systems to cope, innovation in treatments, and the importance of sustainable partnerships
We were pleased to participate in this UK Coalition against NTDs event at House of Lords to mark #WorldNTDDay yesterday, talking about the impact of #Dengue on women and children. By #InnovatingTogether we can develop safer, simpler, and more effective treatments for #NTDs
"AI is showing real potential to bring the best science to the most neglected, by accelerating drug discovery, contributing to the SDGs, and above all saving lives." Fantastic to see Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) highlighted in Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's new digital development strategy 🙌👇
Exciting news from Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative and partners! FCDO Research APPG on Malaria and NTDs
🔊 Listen now: Our Head of Mycetoma Dr. Borna Nyaoke-Anoke speaks to BBC Sounds Health Check about how the ongoing conflict in Sudan has slowed much-needed efforts to develop new treatments for #mycetoma. ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…