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Become a Back-to-School Activist in 5 minutes

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So you want to be an END7 activist? It’s easy! Your school is a great place to start your own END7 campaign. Who doesn’t have spare change to donate?

Neglected tropical diseases are neglected because not many people have heard of them. The first step to getting people excited about your project is to do a little educating.

Some ideas:

  • Show our during an assembly or before a class (health, social studies and science are all good classes to try!)
  • Use , , stickers, or banners to get people talking about NTDs. Here’s an example of a you can print out. Or do something .
  • Use social media to share information about NTDs. Here’s a handy tweet bank for you to use. You can set up your own Twitter account for your campaign or create a Facebook event to invite people to.

 

Once people know a little more about what NTDs are and how just 50 cents helps treat & protect a child for a whole year, you’re ready to start your fundraiser.

Some ideas that you can do at school:

For many of these events you can charge a small entry fee, ask for sponsors, or just provide people with the opportunity to give money by setting up donation jars or laptops where people can donate online. You can also send the link around via email with a note encouraging your friends to get involved.

 

If you hosted a fundraiser, you can send your donation to us the following ways:

  1. Use our online donation page.
  2. Send us a check.
Address:
Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases
2000 Pennsylvania Avenue
Suite 7100
Washington, DC 20006

Most Important: Report back to us on the progress of your work! Share information or photos with us and we’ll be sure to share it with the rest of our community of supporters.  You can get in touch with us directly via , , or by emailing us at

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Rethinking Global Collaborations to Improve Global Health

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Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) affect more than 1 billion people worldwide, and are rampant within the most destitute areas in the developing world. STH infection, which includes Ascariasis one of the seven most common NTDs, is caused by ingesting eggs from contaminated soil and results in intestinal infection of worms. These infections can be treated through mass distribution of drugs provided by pharmaceutical companies; such interventions can be facilitated through private-public partnerships, and cross-sectoral collaborations. William Lin, Director of Corporate Contributions at Johnson & Johnson recently wrote a blog post about this very subject for InterAction’s blog, “Aid Buzz.” Below is an excerpt from Mr. Lin’s blog post; click here to read the piece in its entirety.

By: William Lin, Director of Corporate Contributions at Johnson & Johnson
Reprinted from InterAction’s Aid Buzz

“Last month in Geneva, leaders from government, business and non-governmental organizations met to continue the development of the strategy to coordinate efforts to combat one of the most prevalent – yet preventable – infectious conditions in the world. Intestinal worms, also known as soil transmitted helminthes or STH, affect nearly one in four people on the planet, and until recently, bringing the condition under control seemed like a daunting task. However, with the recent commitment of medicines from Johnson & Johnson and GSK, reaching the 600 million school-age children that are at risk suddenly became an attainable goal. “

NTDs in the News!

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  1. Researchers at The University of Queensland are focused on improving child health by reducing the incidence of infection by soil-transmitted helminths.

The study will be conducted in Timor-Leste, the poorest country in South East Asia. It will test the effectiveness of a combination of mass community medication and a hygiene and sanitation program. The study will have relevance to all developing countries in tropical regions of the world, potentially bringing better health to hundreds of millions.

  1. Strategic Program Partnership forms between Alliance for Global Good and Ben-Gurion University of Negev to improve health education and water management in Jordan and Ethiopia.

The partnership aims to advance education, water resource management and health care in Jordan and Ethiopia.  BGU’s Center for Emerging Tropical Diseases and AIDS (CEMTA) focuses on the prevention and treatment of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the developing world.

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Pilot Case Study: Do Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) Improve access to pharmaceuticals in Uganda?

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Check out this interesting recent pilot study from the Initiative for Public-Private Partnerships for Health, a research initiative out of the Global Forum for Health Research, whose goal is to improve public-private collaborations for health.

The UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded the Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health (IPPPH)1 to conduct a pilot study in Uganda to assess the health and health systems impact of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for improving access to pharmaceuticals in relation to leprosy, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, sleeping sickness, and HIV/AIDS. The specific remit was to examine issues of ownership, integration, coordination, implementation and impact, with a particular focus on the unique strengths and problems of these access PPPs as distinct from other comparable programs where drugs are competitively procured. Fieldwork visits were made to five districts in Uganda –Hoima, Kampala, Katakwi, Masaka and Soroti – selected on the basis of active implementation of the PPP programs […]

Read the full pilot study here.