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World Health Organization Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases: Support for Capacity Strengthening and Visceral Leishmaniasis Programme Coordination (2012–2017)
Assignment
July 17, 2018

This is an Evaluation of DFID’s 2012-17 grant to WHO-NTD, the Geneva-based headquarters of the WHO’s fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). In a pioneering approach, a key element of DFID’s grant was to fund three staff positions within WHO-NTD: a health economist, a logistician and a programme epidemiologist. Unusually DFID also provided specific support to… Read more

Capacity Strengthening, evaluation, neglected tropical diseases, NTDs, WHO
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Communicable diseases: Key challenges and potential solutions
HEART talks
April 23, 2018

In this HEART Talk Dr. Peter MacPherson provides a brief overview of the challenges and potential solutions regarding tackling communicable diseases in developing countries. This presentation was delivered as part of a professional development training session for DFID health advisers in March 2018. Subject experts from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) presented the… Read more

HIV, K4D, Malaria, neglected tropical diseases, tuberculosis
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The global challenge of NTDs: The classic interface of poverty, health and development
Reading Pack
April 20, 2018

The K4D professional development Reading Packs provide thought-provoking introductions by international experts and highlight the emerging issues and debates within them. They aim to help inform policies that are more resilient to the future. For any enquiries, please contact [email protected] Introduction The concept of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) emerged more than a decade ago and has… Read more

Global health, Health, K4D, neglected tropical diseases, NTDs
Health
Delivery of neglected tropical disease control interventions
Helpdesk Report
February 16, 2018

Delivery of integrated neglected tropical disease (NTD) control programmes with similar strategic approaches, geographical overlap and prevalence can minimise costs and expand intervention coverage. This has been evidenced through mass drug administration (MDA) of preventive chemotherapy for lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, three soil-transmitted helminth infections and trachoma. Where programmes lack a common, simplistic approach and… Read more

neglected tropical diseases, WASH
Health
Collaboration to address major health challenges over the next 10 to 20 years
Blog
June 5, 2014

In late 2013, the Collaboration for Applied Health Research & Delivery (CAHRD) embarked on a major Consultation that will end with a meeting in Liverpool on 12th and 13th June to shape its strategic direction to address major health challenges over the next 10 to 20 years. The aim of the 2014 Consultation is to foster… Read more

cahrd, lung health, maternal and newborn health, neglected tropical diseases
Health
DFID Support to the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Context
Assignment
March 12, 2011

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) have tended to receive little attention because of the once-widespread assumption that people at risk of NTDs experience relatively little morbidity, and that these diseases have low rates of mortality. These views have been comprehensively refuted (WHO 2010a). NTDs have a substantial health and economic burden on poor populations. They cause… Read more

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