It World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day. For me focusing at the moment on Bilharzia in Africa which causes children to miss school and debilitating sickness especially in women.

Recently NTD Adviser to https://t.co/GB50pNGrzQ a social enterprise addressing poverty related diseases with sustainable and paradigm-shifting innovations. With partners producing cost effective RDT that improves reliability of population-level surveying and individual diagnosis

Making steady progress to eliminate bilharzia and intestinal worms.

Peter with a little help from friends, put Neglected Tropical Diseases on the Global Health agenda. As the Chair of the Technical Advisory Council, Peter was instrumental in the pursuit of excellence at END Fund. He was always reachable for sound advice. Congratulations Peter.

As we commemorate World Leprosy Day this month, it is crucial to acknowledge that an additional 200,000 individuals are diagnosed with leprosy annually. Governments have the power to #BeatLeprosy, #EndStigma & support the #MentalWellbeing of populations.

Hundreds of millions of $ of donor aid, even billions, are spent on pandemic preparedness (#PPR), but we are struggling to mobilise a few millions for the raging #diphtheria outbreak in West Africa. There is something wrong with priority setting in global health folks 🙄.

This is a very welcome expansion of the ambitious goals to tackle these vector borne diseases on the African continent. Even with such significant funding these diseases can still be truly referred to as neglected because they affect primarily subsistence & displaced communities.

Fantastic news

Your support is so important to our work to eliminate #NTDs so that we can all live healthily. We are excited to announce that until December 31st, the Jackson Kemper Foundation will generously match all gifts made to the END Fund, up to $185,000!

Board of Trustees adopts resolution honoring Dr. Peter Hotez ⁦@TexasChildrens News. So grateful to the Board of Texas Children’s Hospital for their support, especially in this time of extreme antivaccine activism/antiscience aggression. Thank you! https://t.co/aGvK54AFkH

Our human hookworm vaccine effort based at @BCM_TropMed @TexasChildrens Center for Vaccine Development has developed a recombinant protein based vaccine that induces protective immunity vs both the worms and blood loss caused by Necator americanus the most common species 

Yesterday, END Fund CEO @EllenAgler spoke on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC for an event celebrating key public health achievements of Bangladesh, Benin, and Mali, whom have all recently eliminated at least 1 #NTD!

We are also excited to announce that Dr Wendy Harrison (@drwendyharrison) and Professor Margaret Gyapong are starting their terms as Co-President Elects #RSTMH2023 https://t.co/A71Cuavt13

The RLMF program managers meeting convened in Cape Town, South Africa this week. The community of practice shares lessons and developments on their shared goal of elimination. In its 6th year, RLMF has expanded to four new countries — Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, and Rwanda!

At Amani, healthcare is driven by the passion and commitment of CHWs who put the heart in their work. Asha shares her core beliefs as a CHW dedicated to her patients’ well-being. What about you? Tweet us your beliefs on healthcare. #CHWinEveryHome #AmaniGlobalWorks #AmaniImpact

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs. Tsitsi Masiyiwa (@HigherLifeFDN) as Board Chair of the END Fund. Tsitsi has been a member of our board for six years and we are excited for her to take over in this leadership position. For more: https://t.co/17UQpTTg2e

In the wake of the #Kalehe landslide in May, Amani CHWs, nurses, doctors, and staff members from Idjwi Island immediately traveled across Lake Kivu to help rebuild communities. Support Kalehe’s healing by donating to https://t.co/y2XKWzhpOo #AmaniGlobalWorks #AmaniImpact

Excited that the next (24th) edition of our co-edited textbook, Manson’s Tropical Diseases ⁦@ElsevierConnect⁩ has just arrived! ⁦@JeremyFarrar⁩ and a host of great colleagues across the world in tropical medicine

1/n Early copies of my latest book out soon, official release date in September, THE DEADLY RISE OF ANTI-SCIENCE: A SCIENTIST’S WARNING @JHUPress @JohnsHopkins

Carol Karutu, VP of Programs, sat down with @VirginUnite to discuss the ongoing effort to #BeatNTDs like intestinal worm infections – 1.7 million people globally need treatment. Learn how we are tackling this critical issue & what motivates Carol: