News from the network

The NNN welcomes Dorin Brener Turgeman as Vice-Chair for 2025.

An approach to ensuring truthful community representation and ownership in how NTD stories are told.

Lessons on cross-sectoral collaboration to beat NTDs, drawn from programmes in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Uganda.

Introducing the NTD Inclusion Score Card (NISC) — moving from words to action on disability and inclusion.

New infectious diseases with pandemic potential are likely to become more common; measures to prevent their spread should be incorporated into routine health planning.

Delighted to welcome Mr. Gillbert Baayenda from The Fred Hollows Foundation as our new Vice-Chair.

This strategic framework is a companion document to the road map, developed in response to the critical actions identified to reach the 2030 targets, in collaboration with independent experts through an extensive global consultation.

The NNN community is devastated by the passing of Dr Mwele Ntuli Malecela, Director of the Department of NTDs at WHO — a source of strength, inspiration, and motivation for legions of public health practitioners working to eliminate NTDs.

NNN's commitment to hand hygiene for all stands on three pillars: political leadership; an enabling environment for WASH and NTD collaboration; and sustainable, inclusive programming at scale.

The renewed global WASH strategy to combat NTDs envisions accelerated, sustained achievement of road map targets — but how do we get from strategy to accountability and monitor progress?

The NNN is deeply concerned by the UK Government's decision to make significant cuts to funding for global health and development, including investments in the control, elimination, and eradication of NTDs.

The WHO NTD road map 2021-2030 recognises the importance of a cross-sectoral strategy. NNN One Health Group Chair Wendy Harrison discusses the role of NGOs and local communities in implementing One Health.

For Global Handwashing Day 2020, NNN WASH Working Group Chair Yael Velleman interviewed Arielle Dolegui on the challenges and opportunities for coordinated programming to realise hand hygiene for all.

The NNN's commitment to hand hygiene for all stands on three pillars: political leadership; an enabling environment for WASH and NTD collaboration; and sustainable, inclusive programming at scale.

The 11th annual NNN conference highlighted the importance of people-centred, comprehensive health programmes that strengthen health systems and promote resilience to weather COVID-19 and future crises.

This year's annual NNN conference, "Accelerating to 2030: Building Resilient NTD Programmes in a Changing World", tackles resilience and sustainability of health systems head on.

The NNN demonstrates its full support for the WHO and expresses deep concern over the United States Government's decision to withdraw funding from WHO.

This pandemic has had devastating impacts on so many of us but has also challenged our assumptions and provided important lessons that can help improve our work.

The Ascend West and Central Africa programme, funded by UK DFID, announces a new learning and innovation fund to accelerate control and elimination efforts for up to five NTDs.

Dr Nebe Obiageli is the Coordinator of the National Deworming Programme at the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria.

One year on from the launch of the first-ever practical guide on WASH and NTDs collaboration, the co-chairs of the NNN WASH Working Group reflect on its impact.

Yael Velleman of the NNN WASH Working Group sat down with Gilbert Baayenda, the Ugandan Ministry of Health's National Program Officer for Trachoma Control, on cross-sectoral collaboration.

Eradicating NTDs and preventing their reemergence cannot be accomplished without sustained behavior change. WASH programmes are a major focus, but access alone is not enough.

At the 2019 NNN conference in Liverpool, the network celebrates ten years of collaboration and partnership that have contributed to many successes over the past decade.

Dr. Wendy Harrison speaks to Francis Peel from the London Centre for NTD Research about the relationship between academia and the NTD community and the growing demand for cross-disciplinary research.

The NNN encompasses multiple NTD cross-cutting working groups with the goal of developing key technical resources to share among the NTD community.

Intersectoral collaboration is a familiar challenge in all areas of development, and the challenge is often exacerbated in public health programmes.

NNN Executive Committee members Leah Wohlgemuth (Sightsavers) and Prof KH Martin Kollmann (CBM) set out how the BEST framework moves beyond mass-treatment medical approaches to integrate the broader causes and social effects of NTDs.

NGOs are uniquely placed to reach the world's least-served populations and play a critical role in working with governments towards universal health coverage.

Picture the scene: there's a knock at the door. It's your neighbour with a colourfully painted stick and a notebook, asking to measure you so he can give the correct dose of a drug he's carrying. Would you take it?

NTD programmes can be viewed as an investment in the poorest and most marginalised communities and a critical step towards reaching the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

This year's annual African Union Summit was an important and historic milestone for the neglected tropical disease community.

30 January 2022 is the third annual World NTD Day. Adopted at the 74th World Health Assembly, this day recognises that NTDs are widespread in the world's poorest regions and affect over 1 billion people globally.

It has often seemed that men are more commonly affected by leprosy than women. Evidence now shows near parity in rates of affected women and men — but why the confusion?

A three-minute animated video, "Best Foot Forward," depicts the source, treatment and prevention of podoconiosis — a form of elephantiasis triggered by prolonged exposure to irritant minerals in red clay soils.

Global Handwashing Day serves as an important reminder for NTD stakeholders to place hygiene at the heart of efforts to build a healthier, dignified and more equitable society.

To mark the launch of the WHO 2021-2030 Global WASH & NTD Strategy, the NNN WASH Working Group caught up with Dr. Sultani Hadley Matendechero, Director of Kenya's Division of Vector Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases.

The NNN celebrates the second annual World NTD Day, taking stock of contributions from our global community of 85 members and reflecting on what is needed to sustain and accelerate progress toward 2030.

American Leprosy Missions announced the winners of the 2020 NTD Innovation Prize during the closing session of the virtual 11th NTD NGO Network Conference, in partnership with Novartis.

For the inaugural World NTD Day, Yaobi Zhang, Chair of NNN, speaks on the decisive year ahead: a global NTD summit in Kigali, the WHO NTD Roadmap for 2021-2030, an updated WASH & NTD strategy, and more.

On 28 January 2018, the NNN community recognises World Leprosy Day, with a focus on preventing leprosy-related disabilities in young girls and boys.