AM2NTD is building mathematical modelling capacity across Africa to accelerate the achievement of NTD elimination targets in endemic countries.
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Africa Modelling Network for NTDs retweeted
#Rabies isn't a dog-only problem.
Cats, bats, foxes, jackals. Any mammal can carry the virus and pass it on through a single bite or scratch.
If it happens to you, get to a clinic fast. Once symptoms appear, it's almost always too late.
#WorldRabiesDay
ALT World Health Organization warning that rabies spreads through dogs, cats, bats, foxes, and jackals, urging immediate medical attention after any mammal bite or scratch.
Africa Modelling Network for NTDs retweeted
🐕 Sadly, 40% of #rabies victims are children under 15.
We can teach our children about dogs and their behaviour to prevent bites bit.ly/4x9wYRa
#WorldRabiesDay
ALT Infographic explaining how to prevent dog bites with safety tips and first aid advice, featuring two children petting a dog.
Access to #rabies post-exposure prophylaxis #PEP is critical to preventing human deaths after rabid animal bites.
Yet, in rural Kenya longer travel times & greater distances to health facilities reduce access to PEP...
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#WorldRabiesDay
Africa Modelling Network for NTDs retweeted
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In 1996, the world set out to end trachoma. Today, 33 countries have done it.
But 92 million people still live where it threatens their sight.
This week, the global #EndTrachoma Alliance meets in #Nairobi.
In Kenya, Kajiado & Turkana remind us the final mile is the hardest.
#EndTrachoma #BeatNTDs 🇰🇪
WHO recently approved a shorter, safer #Kalaazar treatment for East Africa, cutting injections from 34 to 14 and replacing the most toxic drug with a pill.
More on this breakthrough: willowhealthmedia.org/fewer-… #NTDs by @michollinga of @WillowHealthKe
An estimated 13M people in Rwanda remain at risk of at least one NTD. The National #NTD Strategic Plan 2026–2030 builds on progress towards elimination, eradication and disease control, with equity, integration & sustainable financing at its core.
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What to know about #Rwanda’s Neglected Tropical Diseases (#NTDs) Strategic Plan 2026–2030
Rwanda has set a new direction to accelerate the elimination of most NTDs as a public health problem by 2030 through innovation, integration of services into primary healthcare, and multisectoral collaboration.
Key priorities include:
🔹Accelerating disease-specific interventions and elimination efforts
🔹Strengthening cross-cutting and integrated approaches
🔹Enhancing health systems, capacity, and country ownership
🔹Ensuring sustainable financing and partnerships, including increased domestic financing
Together, we can build a Rwanda free from Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Read more: 👉🔗
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Africa Modelling Network for NTDs retweeted
Since the 1990s, tropical diseases such as Guinea worm disease, trachoma, and sleeping sickness have become far less common across Africa.
Africa Modelling Network for NTDs retweeted
Today, we celebrate the creativity, passion and dedication of young people at #CEMA who are using research and data to contribute to a healthier Africa. We honour their ideas, ambition and impact. 🌍
Happy International Youth Day!
#IYD2026 #PeopleMakeCEMA #YouthInData
Africa Modelling Network for NTDs retweeted
We're proud to be part of the #EndVLAfrika initiative in partnership with #KEMRI, working to generate the evidence needed to eliminate #kalaazar in EA. The #NTD is transmitted by infected female sandflies & is fatal in up to 95% of untreated cases. Read: shorturl.at/Eg7Zy
Together with our host @CEMA_Africa, hosted by Dr. Damaris Matoke-Muhia of #KEMRI, #AM2NTD participated in the launch of the #EndVLAfrika Project last week. #NTDs
Together with our host @CEMA_Africa, hosted by Dr. Damaris Matoke-Muhia of #KEMRI, #AM2NTD participated in the launch of the #EndVLAfrika Project last week. #NTDs
#EndVLAfrika is a project on one of the world's deadliest #NeglectedTropicalDiseases #visceralleishmaniasis (#Kalaazar). The project, comes at a critical time, as Eastern Africa accounts for 71% of the global burden. Left untreated, the disease is fatal in up to 95% of cases.
Africa Modelling Network for NTDs retweeted
.@WHO welcomes the historic @UN_HRC resolution on 'Human rights and neglected tropical diseases' adopted today, which recognizes that neglected tropical diseases are not only a public health challenge, but also a significant human rights concern — they are a mirror of inequality, discrimination and social exclusion.
We stand ready to work with @UNHumanRights to make sure no one's right to health is left behind and to deliver #HealthForAll.
As the world races to achieve a 90% reduction in #NTDs by 2030, it is encouraging to note that the number of people requiring interventions against NTDs declined by 36% in 2024 compared with the 2010 baseline of 2.19 billion people.
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This is a significant milestone, considering that global population grew by more than 1 billion during the same period. #NTDs #lymphaticfilariasis, #onchocerciasis, #schistosomiasis, #soiltransmittedhelminthiases, #STH & #trachoma.
Africa Modelling Network for NTDs retweeted
Baringo County is set to host the world’s first Kala-azar vaccine trial in a major scientific milestone that could transform the fight against one of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases.
Read more: zurl.co/HRG0P
Africa Modelling Network for NTDs retweeted
Kenya is at risk of a rapid resurgence of deadly and disabling diseases after the government failed to allocate any funding for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in the financial year beginning July 2026.
#HealthyNation zurl.co/KIqtn
Revisiting this opinion piece by @GheorghePaul on the drivers of kala-azar in Kenya and the urgent actions needed to save millions from this #NTD. Thanks to @StandardKenya for providing a platform to spotlight this important issue.
@CEMA_Africa
OPINION: Kenya is at a critical juncture in its fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), affecting millions primarily in arid and semi-arid lands. Here, poverty, malnutrition, and climate vulnerability converge, with the burden of NTDs extending far beyond health, perpetuating poverty and constraining productivity.
standardmedia.co.ke/opinion/…
