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Tanzania's Innovative Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases

This scene is part of a larger story of innovation and resilience in Tanzania’s fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), where strategic focus and local ownership are transforming lives.

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From Patient to Advocate: Fatuma’s Role in Ending Trachoma

As Chairperson of her village government in Chalinze, Tanzania, Fatuma was once considered the eyes of her village, as well as a leader. But when her own eyesight began to fail, her world dimmed.

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Investing in Health, Unlocking Potential: The Power of NTD Treatment

The area around Shabani’s native Ludiga village in Tanzania’s Pwani region is known as Msinune, a Swahili word meaning “don’t be sad”. But for years, sadness and pain defined Shabani’s life.

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Healing Eyes, Restoring Lives: Tanzania’s Fight Against Trachoma

For over two years, Mwanaidi lived in pain and darkness. Once a trusted midwife to countless women, she could no longer see the moonlight that once lit the pathways as she made her way to deliver babies at night. Her story is now one of thousands transformed by Tanzania’s commitment to eliminating trachoma.

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Two Surgeries, One Future: A Family’s Triumph Over NTDs

For over 30 years, Rosemary lived with the pain of trachomatous trichiasis (TT), a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that caused her eyelids to turn inward, causing her eyelashes to scrape against her eyes with every blink.

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Uniting and African Union Renew Strategic Partnership to Eliminate NTDs Across Africa

On the side-lines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and the African Union Commission (AUC) renewed their strategic partnership to accelerate the elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) across Africa.

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Uniting Participates in 75th WHO Africa Regional Committee Meeting, Signs Strategic MoU with ECSA-HC

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ECSA-HC and Uniting to Combat NTDs Forge Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases Across Eastern, Central and Southern Africa

The East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) and Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases (Uniting) have officially launched a transformative partnership aimed at accelerating progress in the fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) across the region

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Japan and Africa Leaders Unite to Accelerate Progress on Neglected Tropical Diseases at TICAD9

Leaders from Africa and Japan came together at a high-level TICAD9 side event in Yokohama to strengthen momentum against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of preventable and treatable conditions that affect more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, most of them in Africa. The event, co-hosted by AUDA-NEPAD, SDG Promise Japan, DNDI and Uniting to Combat NTDs, also reinforced the shared commitment of both regions to advancing universal health coverage (UHC).

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Seville Hosts Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development

The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) took place in Seville, marking a pivotal moment for global efforts to reshape development finance.

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