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To mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Day on 30th January 2024, Unlimit Health held the Shine a Light poster competition for a second year. The competition aims to raise awareness of NTDs among children and young people. The winners were invited to an event at the Houses of Parliament where they had the opportunity to listen to speeches by people affected, and meet organisations working to eliminate these diseases.

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The All-party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and the UK Coalition Against NTDs organised an event at the House of Lords under the theme ‘Unite, Act, Eliminate’ to commemorate World NTD Day on 30 January.

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Today, on World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, Unlimit Health is delighted to announce the winners of this years’ Shine a Light poster competition.

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Following the recent European Medicines Agency (EMA) positive scientific opinion for arpraziquantel to treat schistosomiasis in preschool-aged children, Unlimit Health reaffirms its commitment to supporting paediatric treatment against this parasitic infection.

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Today, the Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive scientific opinion for arpraziquantel to treat the neglected tropical disease, schistosomiasis, in preschool-aged children (3 months to 6 years of age).

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The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) funding landscape is evolving rapidly, requiring a radically different funding architecture, as well as additional investment, to effectively impact universal health coverage and reach the last mile in efforts to end parasitic diseases.

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Unlimit Health is delighted by the appointment of its CEO Dr Wendy Harrison as co-President elect of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) alongside Professor Margaret Gyapong.

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To secure data for decision-making in Ethiopia, we facilitated a workshop to support the ministry of heath to align all epidemiological data with demography data for over 25,000 kebeles.

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“Accelerating programmatic action… comprehensive multi-sectoral technical assistance…” These are useful technical terms for people working in public health and they feature heavily in the documents and discussions that informed our new five-year strategy. For those of us who don’t work in public health, though, terms like these may need some unpacking.

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