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Calling all Global Health Bloggers!

“End the Neglect,” the official blog for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases is looking for blog contributions from professionals and students in the global health/development field.

The Global Network launched the “End the Neglect” blog to serve as a broad, transparent platform through which we as a community can continue to raise the profile of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and disseminate stories from the field. End the Neglect is a vital education resource that informs readers of the devastating impact of NTDs and the simple and cost-effective interventions available.

While “End the Neglect” specifically focuses on NTDs, we are also interested in highlighting bloggers with a broader global health perspective. Success stories, personal stories/testimonials from the field, photos, and video are all welcome!

We accept submissions on a rolling basis. If you are interested in blogging for us, please send a writing sample of no more than 500 words and a brief background of your work/educational experience to us using the green “Contact” to the right of the page.

Our blog post submission guidelines are as follows:

  • Keep length of posts between 500-700 words
  • Include links to sites or articles that supplement your topic
  • When quoting other blogs or publications in your post, please link to the original material if possible, and denote quoted material using quotation marks.
  • Submit a brief biography (2-3 lines) and a photo for inclusion with your post.
  • We appreciate suggestions for images to accompany posts. If you have photos available for publication, please submit them along with your post and include caption information and attribution information.
  • If you don’t have images available, we will add one from our own photo stocks or from publicly available resources including Flickr or the CDC’s Public Health Image Library
  • We encourage you to email your post to colleagues and friends to encourage comment and discussion
  • Publication of posts is at the discretion of the Global Network, based on relevance of the subject matter as related to neglected tropical diseases and other global health issues.

Please review the guidelines for submissions, and contact us using the green “Contact” button for more information. Please also visit us on and

Reading Rainposts!

Greetings from End the Neglect!

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Learn something new; Catch up with happenings around the world; Come join our reading adventure with our suggestions below!

  1. Disaster Weather Lowers our Guard Against NTDs

Dr. Peter Hotez, president of Sabin Vaccine Institute, explains the serious impact of hurricanes and climate change on the prevalence of neglected infections in the U.S.

Hotez explains that current post-hurricane conditions in the Gulf coast states coupled with the BP oil disaster and extreme levels of poverty make these areas extremely vulnerable to neglected infections of poverty.”

  1. Guyana is Set to Host Regional Lymphatic Filariasis Meeting

“[…]Principal among the importance of the meeting is the fact that as a Region “[officials] will be able to assess the level of elimination of this preventable infection and identify gaps, challenges and solutions necessary to achieve the Global Goal of Elimination by 2015.”

  1. War on Worms (WOW) project picks up speed and breadth in the Philippines

Plans to expand the ‘War on Worms’ (WOW) program in the Philippines is to be discussed in a meeting in Roxas City, Capiz.”

ENJOY!

4th Annual World Malaria Day: Achieving Progress and Impact

Today is World Malaria Day!

This year’s theme is: Achieving Progress and Impact.  This theme is meant to entreat the broad malaria community to share their malaria control and eradication success stories in order to encourage “further action and investment against this disease.” By sharing your stories, you will be contributing to a collective movement to make every “man, woman, and child’s voice heard” in the fight against malaria.

The intersections of malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are numerous.  Together, they cause roughly 2 million deaths per year. Read our Joint MALARIA & NTDs Factsheet to learn more about the incidence and impact of co-infection with malaria and the seven most common NTDs.

Read other End the Neglect posts commemorating progress in eradicating Malaria:

Reading Rainposts! 04/25/2011

Greetings from End The Neglect!

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Learn something new; Catch up with happenings around the world; Come join our reading adventure with our suggestions below!

  1. Celebrating Amazigo

“Accolades are pouring in for Dr. Uche Amazigo, who retired 1 April as Director of the World Health Organization African Programme for Onchocerciasis (River blindness) Control (WHO/APOC).”

  1. Trachoma is a serious threat in Chitral Valley, Pakistan

“The blinding infection is a serious threat to the population in the Chitral Valley in northern Pakistan, according to community ophthalmologist, Dr. Faizul Mulk.”

  1. Fight the bite

“Recent findings at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, a government-funded research centre in Pune, shows that India’s climate will become hotter and wetter with global climate change. This will have a substantial impact on human health and well being.”

  1. EFINTD Junior Fellowships 2011 – Africa

“The European Foundations Initiative For African Research Into Neglected Tropical Diseases Offering Junior Research Fellowship In 2011″

Enjoy!