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The FY2020 work plan outlines the activities that are expected to be undertaken in Togo in the next fiscal year through USAID's Act to End NTDs | West program (Act | West), led by FHI 360 and implemented in Togo by Health Development International.

The FY2020 work plan outlines the activities that are expected to be undertaken in Burkina Faso in the next fiscal year through USAID's Act to End NTDs | West program (Act | West), managed by FHI 360 and implemented in Burkina Faso by Helen Keller International. The activities in this work plan will support the work of Burkina Faso's national NTD Program (NTDP), which coordinates integrated activities for the control and elimination of preventive chemotherapy NTDs, including lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis and trachoma.

The FY2020 work plan outlines the activities that are expected to be undertaken in Benin in the next fiscal year through USAID's Act to End NTDs | West program (Act | West), led and implemented in Benin by FHI 360.

The FY2020 work plan outlines the activities that are expected to be undertaken in Senegal in the next fiscal year through USAID's Act to End NTDs | West program, led by FHI 360, to support the neglected tropical diseases control and elimination efforts of the country's National Programme for Neglected Tropical Disease Control (PNLMTN), which is housed in the Disease Control Directorate (DLM) of the General Directorate of Public Health (DGSP). 

Follow Dr. Didier Bakajika's update on the latest guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) on lymphatic filariasis transmission assessment surveys and best practices on Friday, December 13, 2019. Note this webinar will be in French.

Nous vous invitons à suivre une mise à jour du docteur Didier Bakajika sur les dernières orientations  de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) en matières des enquêtes d'évaluation de la transmission de la filariose lymphatique et les meilleures pratiques.  Vous aurez également l’occasion de poser des questions.

The USAID Act to End NTDs | West program's two-phase gender analysis examines the differential impact of NTDs by gender, including how gender norms and power differentials may impact NTD program results and how the program can help advance gender equality. Phase one of the gender analysis consists of a literature review, drawing on published and grey literature, as well as an initial analysis of available quantitative data.

District health management teams play an important role in managing NTD medicines and waste during mass drug administration campaigns. This tip sheet is a tool for making this job easier.

It’s no secret that men and women don’t always have equal access to health services, so USAID’s NTD Programs recently studied gender balance in mass drug administration for NTDs.