Global Schistosomiasis Alliance

YOUR EXPERIENCE CAN IGNITE THE NEXT GENERATION OF NTDs LEADERS. Across the NTD response, professionals like you have spent years solving complex challenges, building partnerships, and driving change. Now, that hard-won knowledge can shape the future. One Health Society-Tanzania is inviting global #Mentors to join #YouthNTDsFellowship Cohort 2 — a 12-week initiative bringing together 30 emerging young leaders from Tanzania and Kenya, in partnership with Global Alliance for NTDs Elimination - GANE Kenya). As a #Mentor, you will: ✍️Share real-world insights across #NTDs, #PublicHealth, #OneHealth, research, policy, advocacy, community engagement, and innovation. ✍️Guide emerging leaders as they navigate their professional journeys with clarity and confidence. ✍️Co-create meaningful knowledge exchange that strengthens leadership and impact. 💥 If you have knowledge worth sharing, help us build a stronger, more connected NTD community. Apply to become a mentor 👇👇 https://lnkd.in/e-cuJTDd #BeatNTDs #YouthLeadership #MentorshipMatters

⏳ 6 days left. Your experience matters. You’ve spent years building expertise in Neglected Tropical Diseases (#NTDs). Now, you can help the next generation of African women leaders build theirs. 🤝 Become a mentor for Cohort IV of the Mwele Malecela Mentorship (MMM) Programme. Share your knowledge. Open doors. Help shape what comes next. 📅 Applications close: 22 September 2026 👉 Apply now: https://lnkd.in/dFYMZFEN Menttium | Gates Foundation

A must watch clip from Dr Pauline Mwinzi & WHO AFRO - Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ESPEN) highlighting some of the key criteria for #schistosomiasis elimination dossiers

TWiP 287: A Vaccine Against Schistosomiasis? SchistoShield Heads to Phase 2 〰️ Mumtaz Balkhi joins TWiP to discuss phase 1 and 1b trials of the schistosomiasis vaccine SchistoShield, which demonstrate that it induces functional immune memory responses in US and African populations. 📺 bit.ly/3Vjzy9N  

Youth NTDs Fellowship Cohort 2,Empowering the next Generation for NTDs Elimination 🔥🔥. Dr Claire Fuller Kingsley Asiedu Dr Camilla Ducker Rie Yotsu,MD,MIPH,PhD Hamisi Msagama

World #NTD Day 2027 #Photo #Competition   From #art to #photography: After a successful launch of an NTD Art Competition last year, we are thrilled to announce this year’s NTD Photo Competition!   #NTDs affect over 1 billion people worldwide and they can be found in every region of the world.   From #Africa to the #Americas, from #Europe to the Eastern #Mediterranean, from Southeast #Asia to the Western #Pacific: Under the motto NTDs Through the Lens: Stories of Risk, Resilience and Response we want to see NTDs through your eyes and understand what they mean to you and how they affect you.   No matter if you are a person affected by NTDs, if you are living in an endemic region for specific NTDs or whether you see them through the microscope in your lab: Everyone is welcome to join! This competition is meant to show how we are all #connected by the topic of NTDs.   Send us your photograph by October 25. An interdisciplinary jury will choose one winner photo per each of the 6 #WHO regions. These 6 photos will enter an online voting process, to determine the final winner.   The 6 winners will receive #prize money and their photos, as well as other chosen photos from the submissions, are planned to be shown in a photo book and/or exhibitions for World NTD Day 2027.   You can find more information here: https://lnkd.in/ekWZ3hFV The competition is organised by: tropmed-DTG, #IFOTRODE, Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases / Réseau Canadien pour les MTNs and Elysium Noma Survivors Association The competition is supported by: Andreas Ruppel Fund and #FESTMIH. Global Alliance for NTDs Elimination - GANE Kenya World Health Organization International Society For Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD) WHO AFRO - Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ESPEN) Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) Swiss TPH Inediz

📢 New Toolkit on Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS)! - Global Schistosomiasis Alliance Looking for practical tools to strengthen advocacy and raise awareness around Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS)? The Advocacy Guide for Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) developed by One Health Society-Tanzania is a toolkit designed for civil society organisations working to improve awareness, advocacy, and action around this often overlooked disease. 📘 The guide provides practical information and tools to help civil society organisations: 🔹 Advocate for greater recognition of FGS 🔹 Raise awareness among communities and decision-makers 🔹 Strengthen engagement and collaboration 🔹 Support efforts to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care 🌍 A useful resource for organisations and advocates working on schistosomiasis, women's health, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), and health equity. 🔗 Explore the resource on InfoNTD: https://lnkd.in/edCVwKA2 #FGS #Schistosomiasis #NTDs #GlobalHealth #WomensHealth #Advocacy #HealthEquity #InfoNTD

How can we strengthen advocacy for female genital schistosomiasis (FGS)? One Health Society-Tanzania has developed an Advocacy Guide for Female Genital Schistosomiasis: A Toolkit for CSOs, drawing on its experience advocating for greater recognition of FGS in Tanzania. The guide provides practical information to strengthen efforts to put FGS on the health and policy agenda, with approaches that others can adapt and build on in their own contexts. Access the document via the Global Schistosomiasis Alliance: https://lnkd.in/dX2baQk6