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MEDIA ADVISORY: Task Force for Global Health Experts at UN General Assembly
Photo header courtesy of UN Photo/Manuel Elías for UN News. Task Force leaders, including representatives from the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination and the Partnership …
Control, Eliminate, Eradicate: What’s the difference? Q&A with Epidemiologist Sanjaya Dhakal
Global health has lots of jargon and terms that can be confusing for people who don’t speak it for a living. Ending preventable diseases is
Why We Beat NTDs: Celebrating World NTD Day
January 30 is World NTD Day and World Leprosy Day so this issue of Dispatches reports on neglected tropical diseases and delves into the differences
Heart-to-Heart: Ethiopian Doctor Uses compassion + Medical Training to Fight NTDs
In 30 years of practice, Dr. Zerihun Tadesse has touched nearly every part of the Ethiopian health system. He worked as a general practitioner in
Two-year Study Finds Effective Treatment for Disabling and Stigmatizing Condition
Preliminary results from a two-year study in six countries suggest significant improvement for people affected by lymphedema, thanks particularly to daily hygiene of the affected
Frequent Contact: One Health Worker’s Secret to Reaching Zero Leprosy in Mozambique
Seventy kilometers outside Mossuril, in Nampula Province along the Mozambican coast, Simione Vontade, 29, was bumping along a tropical, sandy road when his car was
Task Force Contributes to Special COVID-19 Session of the World Health Assembly
COVID-19 deaths surpassed five million people globally in November and there have been more than 250 million cases. While American children are now able to
Masterclass Series: ‘Leading and Managing in a Crisis’
By Andi Kezh, Task Force Intern The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear just how essential global pandemic preparedness truly is. It’s not only activities like
MedSurplus Alliance’s Kits4Life Initiative Wins U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Award
This week, Bayer U.S. LLC Pharmaceuticals and the MedSurplus Alliance’s Kits4Life Initiative received the 2021 U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Corporate Citizen Award. Kits4Life Founder Greg
Why Give to The Task Force? Q&A with Chief External Relations Officer Lynn Heinisch and Board Member Jim Jackson
As the end-of-year charitable giving season begins, we speak with Task Force Chief External Relations Officer Lynn Heinisch and board member Jim Jackson, Chief Marketing
“In polio, the team spirit inspires me everyday”: Polio Expert Dr. Fabien Diomande on Winning the Battle
After two decades working in global health and fighting dozens of polio outbreaks across Africa in countries like Cameroon, Madagascar, and Ethiopia, Dr. Fabien Diomande
What Does World Polio Day Mean During A Vaccine-Preventable Pandemic?
By Andi Kezh, Task Force Intern Born in India in 1992, Grace Rossow didn’t receive the polio vaccine as a baby and contracted polio before she was a
Videos: Task Force, NGO and Pharmaceutical Partners Fighting Blindness Celebrate World Sight Day
World Sight Day, celebrated annually on the second Thursday of October, brings global awareness to vision impairment and blindness. According to the World Health Organization,
Header photo caption: A drug distributor travels long distances to a remote village in Cameroon to get medicines for onchocerciasis (river blindness) and lymphatic filariasis to marginalized societies most in need.
