The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (Global Network), a major program of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, is an advocacy and resource mobilization initiative dedicated to raising the awareness, political will, and funding necessary to control and eliminate the seven most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs): soil-transmitted helminths (hookworm, ascariasis, and trichuriasis), onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma,
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أفادت وزارة الصحة في جنوب السودان أن البلاد لقحت أكثر من 94 بالمائة من الأطفال دون سن الخامسة ضد شلل الأطفال من خلال حملات التطعيم
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Through frequent door-to-door polio immunization campaigns, South Sudan has vaccinated more than 94 percent of children under age five against the disease, according to the
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More has to be done to ensure the health and wellbeing of women and children affected by the Syrian conflict, said Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director
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When Iyabo Dolarin’s trachoma mapping team conducts surveys in Nigeria’s Kaduna State, they begin with a ritual: They go to the centre of the community
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In Uganda, a new pilot project seeks to understand the threat climate change poses to coffee, which will enable growers to enhance the crop’s resilience
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US officials and others argue former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was a “clear danger” to the Iraqi people and to the region, pointing to the
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Africa Union Health Ministers Call for Increased Investments to Rid Africa of Neglected Tropical Diseases The Sixth Conference of African Union Ministers of Health (CAMH6)
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni today formally launched the introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) into the country’s routine immunization schedule to avert infant and
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Groups Convene African Ministers of Health on World Malaria Day In celebration of World Malaria Day, which is commemorated annually around the world on 25
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