Neglected Tropical Diseases

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  Improving access to preventive medicine: a data visualization and analysis platform to support microplanning of schistosomiasis control  

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  KIT and in country partners are designing a real time monitoring and evaluation platform to facilitate decision making for the control and management of schistosomiasis. This tool will build upon the MATCH methodology that seeks to inform decision making through better use of data.   In the 2021-2030 roadmap, the WHO calls for: With the limited resources available for reducing transmission and […]

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  BFM Toolkit: Guides and Tools

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  Beneficiary Feedback Mechanism (BFM) for Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes To improve the delivery of health interventions people-centred approaches are needed, both to ensure that interventions are accessible and address health care needs appropriately. Feedback of patients and community members can be used to improve programmatic activities and lead to the more equitable and comprehensive distribution […]

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  Beneficiary Feedback Mechanisms

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  CLOSING THE LOOP: LESSONS LEARNED FROM IMPLEMENTATION IN ASCEND LOT 1. To improve the delivery of health interventions, people-centred approaches are needed, both to ensure that interventions are accessible and address health care needs appropriately. There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating that the feedback of patients and community members can improve programmatic activities and lead to the more […]

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  ASCEND: Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases

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  Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of infectious diseases that thrive in poor and rural settings, affecting 1.6 billion of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, including 850 million children. Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ASCEND) is a new programme funded by the UK Department for International Development […]

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  Fighting Leptospirosis: a Neglected Global Disease

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  GLEAN is a multisector, multidisciplinary consortium devoted to the fight against leptospirosis. KIT Royal Tropical Institute is involved as a major contributor, supporting the detection and control of this infectious disease that affects over 1 million people a year globally. A global burden Leptospirosis is an endemic and epidemic zoonotic disease with global distribution, which is particularly […]

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