Tackling the Obstacles to Fight Filarial Infections and

Podoconiosis - TAKeOFF

Tackling the Obstacles to Fight Filarial Infections and

Podoconiosis - TAKeOFF

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Date 14.10.2024, at14-15:30 Uhr

World Health Summit 2024: Battling Neglected Tropical Diseases in Times of Climate Change

You can watch the live streaming of the session on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf-AXHWVNuk

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Date:18 October at 15:30 (CEST)

Symposium on Developing Drugs for Neglected Tropical Diseases. 

Speakers:

Mark Sullivan, the founder and Managing Director of Medicines Development for Global Health "Developing and delivering medicines for neglected tropical diseases: The highest of bars"

Sabine Specht, Head of Filarial Diseases at the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi). "Repurposing: A strategy to reduce drug development risks in NTDs"

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The TAKeOFF Consortium together with other LeDoxy trial centres have published their joint study on Lymphedema management using hygiene measures and doxycycline administration. The multi-centre, multi-country clinical trial, was conducted in 5 country, Ghana, Tanzania, Mali, Sri Lanka and India.  The trials were a collaborative effort between COR-NTD (TaskForce for Global Health, Atlanta, USA) and IMMIP (Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, The German Center for Infection Research, Bonn-Cologne site, Germany). Trials in Ghana and Tanzania were funded by The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Neglected Tropical Diseases Program through their support of the Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases (COR-NTD) grant (AID-OAA-G-14-00008), funded those conducted in Mali, Sri Lanka and India. Continue reading

TAKeOFF Consortium Scientists hold RHISSA sessions at the 2024 UN Science Summit

The TAKeOFF Consortium joined other RHISSA funded consortia to present at the annual Science Summit at UN General Assembly 2024 held in New York. Dr Ute Klarmann-Schulz from IMMIP Bonn and Dr. Linda Batsa Debrah from KNUST Ghana, chaired the session "Collaborative African-German research exchange, implementation & uptake." Hosted by BMBF funded RHISSA . RHISSA, (Research Networks for Health Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa), is made up of 9 BMBF funded consortia, one of them being our TAKeOFF Project.  Continue reading


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