Fighting disease
Sightsavers awarded grant to help eliminate trachoma in Zambia
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded Sightsavers a grant of US$2.19 million to help fight the disease.
Expanding the Reaching the Last Mile Fund: a game-changer for river blindness and lymphatic filariasis
Sightsavers’ Phil Downs explains why the funding pledge is a huge step towards tackling the two neglected tropical diseases and eliminating them for good.
Sightsavers and RSTMH host learning event on large-scale trachoma programmes
The online event will share key findings on eliminating trachoma from a new collection of research papers published in the International Health journal.
Sightsavers pledges US$60 million to help beat neglected tropical diseases
The funding will be used for programmes that protect people from the harmful effects of trachoma, river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and intestinal worms.
Sightsavers research project aims to map the impact of climate change on NTDs
Led by Sightsavers and the Walker Institute, the project will work with the Malawian government to explore a range of future scenarios, and what these would mean for its efforts to curb NTDs.
The world is making progress on eliminating lymphatic filariasis – yet we urgently need to finish the work
Sightsavers’ Roland Bougma shares what action needs to be taken to ensure the disease is eliminated as a public health problem globally.
A good problem: why new training methods are needed to eliminate trachoma
As even more countries get closer to eliminating trachoma, a new challenge is emerging: how to keep the health workforce well-trained on identifying signs of the disease.
African states honoured for beating neglected tropical diseases
Benin and Ghana, two of the countries where Sightsavers works, have been recognised for their success in wiping out several diseases that are prevalent in poor and marginalised communities.
How our research could help more than 50 million women
Sightsavers researchers are working to understand how we can care for women with female genital schistosomiasis, a devastating disease that affects millions of women in Africa.
How Mali overcame three big challenges and eliminated trachoma
Sightsavers’ Boubacar Morou Dicko shares the obstacles Mali faced on the road to eliminating trachoma, and how the country was able to overcome them.
