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10 June 2024 | A meta-analysis co-authored by Nobel Prize winner Professor Michael Kremer reaffirms significant positive health impacts of mass treatment with albendazole or mebendazole.
27 March 2024 | video (webinar). Why is Dengue fever spreading to places it did not exist before? What are the symptoms and treatments? What about vaccines? Dr Raman Velayudhan explains in Science in 5.
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The department coordinates and supports policies and strategies to enhance global access to interventions for the prevention, control, elimination and eradication of NTDs.
COVID-19 and NTDs
Across the whole spectrum of essential health services, NTD interventions have been found to be among the most frequently and most severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases (STAG-NTD) is the principal advisory group to the WHO for the control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
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More than 150 onchocerciasis partners, including national onchocerciasis coordinators from health ministries of endemic and formerly endemic countries,...
This toolkit is a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement (RCCE)...
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