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RSTMH online – Presidential Address by Professor David Mabey and our mid-term strategy review

01 Jun 2020

RSTMH Mid-term Strategy review

On 26 May 2020 we welcomed over 160 guests to our online event to provide an update on progress on our five-year strategy, launched in 2017.

26 May 2020

COVID-19 response in Sudan

We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Dr Rania Baleela, our Country Ambassador for Sudan.

26 May 2020

WHO published updated community health programmes guidelines

The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its interim guidance for the implementation of community-based health care programmes, including neglected tropical disease programmes in a new report on 7 May 2020.

07 May 2020

Record number of small grants received in 2020

This year we have once again seen a record number of applicants for our small grants programme, receiving 932 applications in total.

04 May 2020

The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya

We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Dr Mark Nanyingi, our Country Ambassador for Kenya.

04 May 2020

COVID-19 in Botswana: A brief report by a front line official

We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Ivan Nkaiwa, our Country Ambassador for Botswana.

04 May 2020

Australia in the time of COVID-19

We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Professor John Aaskov, our Country Ambassador for Australia.

04 May 2020

One more week to get applications in for an RSTMH small grant

We have a week to go for RSTMH small grant submissions and we would love to see more applications from those early in their careers, from around the world.

20 Apr 2020

COVID-19: WHO issues interim guidance for implementation of NTD programmes

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued interim guidance for NTD programmes in accordance with the public health measures put in place to curb the Covid-19 pandemic.

02 Apr 2020

COVID-19 – advice from RSTMH members and Fellows

Response from our members and Fellows what they felt RSTMH should be doing to help the global efforts to tackle COVID-19.

23 Mar 2020

Soulsby Foundation calls for applications for 2020 One Health Fellowships

Soulsby Foundation has opened a call for applications for the 2020 Travelling Fellowships Programme

26 Nov 2019

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Credit: Professor Gail Davey. Caption: Rwandan podoconiosis patients learning self-care for their legs

Professor Gail Davey: ‘Act now. Act together. Invest in tackling neglected tropical diseases for health equity and social justice’

For World NTD Day, Professor Gail Davey, Trustee and Past President of RSTMH and a medical epidemiologist specialising in skin-related Neglected Tropical Diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, looks at why it is crucial that we act now and together to end NTDs and says that NTD programmes can no longer be considered in isolation from endemic country health systems.

30 Jan 2023

Credit: Bate Eyong Caption: Blood samples collected as part of community survey to determine the prevalence of lymphatic filariasis in the northwest region of Cameroon.

Professor David Mabey: Progress has been made against NTDs but the battle is far from over

Professor David Mabey, Past President and Trustee of RSTMH and Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of the WHO Department of NTDs, looks at what progress has been made in the fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and says that now is the time for us all to act, act together and invest in NTDs.

30 Jan 2023

Finding trachoma Credit: Kramoko Bamba / Sightsavers Caption "In Amédékro, Ivory Coast, Children wait in an orderly queue for Dr Sarr Boubacar to screen them for trachoma. He checks the eyes of all of the children for evidence of this potentially blinding neglected tropical disease, which typically affects people in remote or poor areas. During this activity, almost 2000 children were screened and those with trachoma were given medication to treat the infection. Importantly, he also trained others in the

World NTD Day: Early Career Grant Research into NTDs

World NTD Day is taking place today on 30 January. To mark this year, we spoke to a number of our Early Career Grant awardees about why they chose to focus on NTDs in their Early Career Grant research, and what this year’s theme of ‘Act now. Act together. Invest in NTDs’ means to them.

30 Jan 2023

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RSTMH online – Presidential Address by Professor David Mabey and our mid-term strategy review

RSTMH Mid-term Strategy review

COVID-19 response in Sudan

WHO published updated community health programmes guidelines

Record number of small grants received in 2020

The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya

COVID-19 in Botswana: A brief report by a front line official

Australia in the time of COVID-19

One more week to get applications in for an RSTMH small grant

COVID-19: WHO issues interim guidance for implementation of NTD programmes

COVID-19 – advice from RSTMH members and Fellows

Soulsby Foundation calls for applications for 2020 One Health Fellowships

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Professor Gail Davey: ‘Act now. Act together. Invest in tackling neglected tropical diseases for health equity and social justice’

Professor David Mabey: Progress has been made against NTDs but the battle is far from over

World NTD Day: Early Career Grant Research into NTDs

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