Can We Nudge the Budget? Our Experience at the END7 Student Advocacy Day
By Anjali Bhatla, Cyrus Ghaznavi and Sri Gopakumar Rice University Undergraduates On a bright spring morning in Washington, D.C., we stood outside the U.S. Capitol in the middle of a whirlwind,...
View ArticleNational Science Academies Urge G7 Leaders to Address NTDs
View image | gettyimages.com In advance of every G7 summit, the national science academies of the G7 countries prepare policy statements on the priority issues identified by the G7 host country....
View ArticlePowerful Testimonies Urge Action on Neglected Tropical Diseases
Earlier this month, The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs, chaired by Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), conducted a hearing on Global Health Programs...
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Come here every month to see the most important news on NTDs! Health Ministers Unite to End NTDs – Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, May 19 How Three Scientists ‘Marketed’ Neglected...
View ArticleCalling Time on Urogenital Schistosomiasis
I spent many of my teenage years living in Malawi, enjoying swimming in beautiful Lake Malawi. Wind on to age 30, and I was struggling to get pregnant. Eventually, following illness, I was diagnosed...
View Article3rd Progress Report on The London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases...
Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases released its third progress report on The London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases on June 25, 2015. Read the full executive summary and report....
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Come here every month to see the most important news on NTDs! 1. Malawi Eliminates Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) Disease – AllAfrica, June 1 2. Jigawa Trains 650 Health Workers on Neglected Diseases –...
View ArticleWhat Gets Measured Gets Counted
A man is disfigured and shunned by his community. A child is too tired and sick to go to school. A woman is blinded by an infection. These are just some of the effects of neglected tropical diseases...
View ArticleA Moral Imperative: END7 Student Simran Dhunna Urges World Leaders to...
END7 has just announced the members of the 2015-2016 Student Advisory Board. Congratulations to all of our new and returning board members, and our sincere thanks to everyone who applied! The Student...
View ArticleHelen Keller International and TOMS: Motivating Community Drug Distributors...
Efforts to fight Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are truly massive undertakings, since their success hinges upon the ability of national NTD programs to literally reach millions of people and...
View ArticleTaking the “neglect” out of “neglected tropical diseases”
Today we’ve posted an essay by Rice University rising junior Anjali Bhatla, one of five winners of a student competition on raising awareness of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of...
View ArticleBroadcasting change on college campuses
Today we’ve posted an essay by Rice University sophomore Elisabeth Kalomeris, one of five winners of a student competition on raising awareness of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of...
View ArticleUsing social media to raise awareness of NTDs
Today we’ve posted an essay by Juan Ulises Rojo, a graduate student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and one of five winners of a student competition on raising awareness of neglected...
View ArticleThe Global NGO Deworming Inventory: Taking Stock of Progress against NTDs
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 873 million children are at risk of soil-transmitted helminths (STH), including roundworm, hookworm and whipworm. In children, STH...
View ArticleA Call to Compassion and Unity
Over the past nine years, USAID’s Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Program has delivered more than 1.3 billion treatments to nearly 600 million people across 32 countries. USAID’s work with NTDs is a...
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Come here every month to see the most important news on NTDs! 1. The Effect of Elephantiasis on Mental Health Highlighted for the First Time – BioMed Central, July 31 2. Trachoma Risk Tied to Sleeping...
View ArticleUsing visual media to raise awareness of NTDs
Today we’ve posted an essay by Keng Hou Mak, a Ph.D. candidate in the Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences Program at Baylor College of Medicine and one of five winners of a student...
View ArticleIntroducing Anjali Bhatla, September’s END7 Student of the Month
Each month, END7 honors one student who has made a significant contribution to our growing movement of student advocates dedicated to seeing the end of NTDs. We are very proud to introduce our...
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Come here every month to see the most important news on NTDs! 1. Clinical Trials for First Oral Drug Candidate Specifically Developed for Sleeping Sickness – Medical Xpress, September 8 2. Countries...
View ArticleAdiós! Goodbye, oncho! Mexico joins two other countries in ending...
I can’t wait to spread the news. The Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region is one step closer to seeing the end of onchocerciasis (also referred to as river blindness): Mexico has become the...
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