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Deworming efforts reach five billion doses as new coalition promises further progress

Volunteer Group Addresses Supply Chain Challenges to Track Medical Donations for Neglected Tropical Diseases From Door to Door
Once there is a treatment for a disease, manufacturing it, sending it, and distributing it to those who need it seems like the easy part.

Compassion & COVID-19 (Vol. 2)
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The Task Force’s NTD Programmatic Activities During the Coronavirus Pandemic
During the coronavirus pandemic, The Task Force for Global Health’s neglected tropical disease (NTD) programs have altered their operations based on the World Health Organization’s

Challenging Stigma with Compassion During COVID-19
Often in major disease outbreaks, marginalized groups face stigmatization and blame. Though stigma is incredibly harmful to health and well-being, and has been a recurring

Could We Have Been More Prepared for the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Responding to the scale and impact of the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge the public health community has not faced in the modern era. While

Equipping Clinical Care Facilities
This article is a sub-article of “Could We Have Been More Prepared for the Coronavirus Pandemic?” See the full article. In clinical care settings, health

Building Epidemiological Capacity to Slow the Spread of a Pandemic
This article is a sub-article to “Could We Have Been More Prepared for the Coronavirus Pandemic?” See the full article. Health system strengthening is often

Pandemic Preparedness: Developing and Deploying Vaccines
This article is a sub-article to “Could We Have Been More Prepared for the Coronavirus Pandemic?” See the full article. While this pandemic is not

Staff Heroine: Carla Johnson, A Woman of Excellence
On March 5th, many staff members from The Task Force for Global Health kicked off celebrating Women’s History Month by attending Emory’s Women of Excellence

A Man of Scientific Integrity: The Task Force Thanks Walter Dowdle, PhD, for His Many Contributions
Photo credit: Global Health Chronicles On any given day, when Walter Dowdle, PhD, would walk to work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Report from Sri Lanka: Hope for People Living with Lymphedema
In honor of World Lymphedema Day, The Task Force journeyed to Sri Lanka to hear from persons affected by filarial lymphedema – a condition caused

The Ambitious Goal of Beating Neglected Tropical Diseases By 2030
This article was originally published on Medium. One billion. It can be difficult to conceptualize a number so big. If you were to count one