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Unite. Act. Eliminate. KCCR Joins the World🌍 in raising awareness on #NTDs to garner support towards its eradication. #WorldNTDDay #KCCR #knust

"𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑁𝑇𝐷𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑... 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑢𝑝 𝑜𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑠, 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑛." @DrTedros #skinNTDs

How do you give #mentalhealth/spiritual support to people discriminated against, depressed & isolation in poor remote areas? Inspiring work #DRC #training & mobilizing #churches & communities Prof Dolphin, Insti Méd. Évangélique Kimpese @WHO #SkinNTDs @AmericanLeprosy #beatNTDs

The economic importance of #SkinNTDs and its impact on the society presented by @nonjake on behalf of the @skin_africa @RichardAllanP @moppong541 @LuciOwusu1 @KCCR_GH

The cost of seeking care is a major barrier - findings from Ghana & Ethiopia presented by @nonjake from our @NIHRglobal @skin_africa project> These are both direct & indirect costs and we need to address them both to improve #skinNTD outcomes

Jacob Novignon @nonjake highlighting the significant economic barriers to services for #SkinNTDs at the first @WHO global meeting on skin NTDs @RichardAllanP @dr_michaelmarks @skin_africa @LuciOwusu1 @KCCR_GH @KNUSTGH @KingsleyAsied11 @bernymorp @AbigailAgbanyo

The important role laboratories play in the combat against NTDs being presented ⁦@WHO⁩ first global meeting on #skinNTDs by ⁦@AbigailAgbanyo⁩ ⁦@YawAmoako2002⁩ ⁦@RichardAllanP⁩ ⁦@KingsleyAsied11⁩ ⁦@KCCR_GH⁩

Our star girl on show emphasizing the importance of labs in NTD works

Remember to include Labs in your grant applications and advocacy! Pleads Prof. Richard Phillips @KNUSTGH in the #SkinNTD challenges and progress and R&D discussion @WHO #beatNTDs #StrongerTogether

@AbigailAgbanyo @WHO @nackam_ @RichardAllanP @YawAmoako2002 @KCCR_GH Well done @AbigailAgbanyo for the insightful presentation on the laboratory and diagnostic capacity for skin NTDs in Ghana. These efforts will surely #beatNTDs as we continue to employ innovative approaches to research on #SkinNTDs @WHO

It’s the whole patient to treat not the hole in the patient. A good take home message ⁦@WHO⁩ meeting on SkinNTD day 2 #woundcare #skinNTD #beatNTD ⁦@YawAmoako2002⁩ ⁦@AbigailAgbanyo⁩ ⁦@dr_michaelmarks⁩ ⁦@RichardAllanP⁩

We are delighted that the Director General of the WHO joins us at the first of its kind Skin NTDs meeting. ⁦@ILDSDerm⁩ ⁦@IFDerm⁩ #beatntds ⁦@ControlScabies⁩ ⁦@PodoDotOrg⁩

Use of technology to #beatNTDs can this help with data collection or training? @Clairefuller19 @rieyotsu @mireiacano @WHO global meeting on #SkinNTDs

Great start of the first ⁦@WHO⁩ global meeting on #SkinNTDs. ⁦@RichardAllanP⁩ AG-Phillips SkinNTD team from ⁦@KCCR_GH⁩ reprinted to showcase their contributions to the NTDs campaign. ⁦@YawAmoako2002⁩ ⁦@AbigailAgbanyo⁩

To really manage, monitor & integrate NTDs, it is key to also work more closely with Civil Registration & Vital stats, logistics, monitoring & surveillance of events related to animal health - says Pamela Mbabazi @WHO #SkinNTDs #BeatNTDs #StrongerTogether

#Priority:Advocacy & Visibility. One of the best slide from #WHO skinNTDs meeting. #beatNTDs #Roadmapa2030 @KingsleyAsied11 @DrEstherFreeman

Great News 👏👏👏 Number of people receiving #NtDs Interventions 2010-2021. 1 Billion people were treated in successive year,from 2016 to 2019.But we need to do more to control, elimination and eradication NTDs. @Clairefuller19

Skin NTDs -The Health challenge #dermtwitter

To showcase the important work we do on Skin NTDs at the @KCCR_GH on the global stage. Members of the team under the leadership of @RichardAllanP represented the First @WHO Global meeting on Skin NTDs in Geneva. We will present important findings #SkinNTDs #beatNTDs @bernymorp

Networking to #beatNTDs at the first @WHO Global meeting on skin NTDs #SkinNTDs #SHARP @LuciOwusu1 @dr_michaelmarks @Pennymols @nonjake @bernymorp @KingsleyAsied11 @RichardAllanP @KobbyA_