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From Standardized to Just the Right Size: Customizing Standard Operating Procedures for NTD Supply Chain Management
July 1st, 2014
One of the best ways to become an expert in any field is to carefully learn, study, apply and adapt the successful techniques and methods of other well-known experts. This is true for individuals and large organizations, alike. Government agencies and programs have long recognized the benefits of learning from the experts, which is why
Surveillance, Sustainability among Topics Discussed at Spring 2014 END In Africa Partners Meeting
May 29th, 2014
Four years into the USAID-funded, FHI360-managed END in Africa project, which targets five neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)—lymphatic filariasis (LF), schistosomiasis, trachoma, onchocerciasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis—in the five fast-track West African countries of Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Sierra Leone and Togo, about 50 stakeholders met in the Ghanaian capital city of Accra to review progress and
Burkina Faso Restructures National Schistosomiasis Treatment Strategy Using Recommendations from Experts Meeting
April 11th, 2014
In late November 2013, Burkina Faso’s National Program for the Control of Schistosomiasis and Soil-transmitted Helminthiasis (PNLSc) revised its national treatment strategy for schistosomiasis (SCH), in part to better align its program with treatment recommendations released by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2012. The revised strategy is the product of a meeting of 25
Transmission Assessment Surveys: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
July 30th, 2013
When it comes to transmission assessment surveys (TAS), the results are black and white. Communities in Burkina Faso either pass the test, or they fail–there’s no such thing as a middle ground. After all, what’s at stake is nothing less than peoples’ health, and by extension, their entire quality of life. Back in 2006, a
Behind the scenes at the FY2014 END in Africa work planning sessions
June 19th, 2013
Alexander Graham Bell once said, “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” While the famous telephone inventor was more familiar with communications than global health, he may as well have been speaking directly to a group of national NTD program managers and NTD stakeholders in the affected countries. Successful implementation of the many
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