TIBA partners have signed the Kigali Declaration to end neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), becoming the first African led research partnership to do so.

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Read The Sunday Mail write up about the TIBA Dissemination Meeting held at Victoria Falls

• The Sunday Mail - https://www.sundaymail.co.zw/tiba-meeting-begins

A new film launching today, produced in collaboration between Professor Agnieszka Piotrowska and Professor Francisca Mutapi, acts as both an awareness-raising and advocacy tool, amplifying the stories of people affected and calling for tailored interventions.

View the film on the Uniting to Combat NTDs website - https://unitingtocombatntds.org/news/film-launched-on-bilharzia-wash-and...

Find out more about TIBA's contribution to the WHO policy on' Deworming adolescent girls and women of reproductive age'.

• 'Deworming adolescent girls and women of reproductive age', policy brief - https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240037670

University of Edinburgh Global Health Professor to join the newest class of 20 global visionaries, sharing their big ideas throughout the events planned for 2021.

Epidemiologist Francisca Mutapi has been selected as a TED Fellow, joining a class of 20 remarkable individuals who are collaborating across disciplines to spark positive change around the world.  

Read the full report from our AGM in Accra, Ghana, September 2019

2nd TIBA AGM Report

Through a Financial Assurance Fund from the UK’s National Institute for Health Research we are delighted to be organising a workshop on Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP) workshop. This workshop is a joint venture by the TIBA Partnership and the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). We are being hosted by our colleagues in the University of Rwanda.

Read more about this and previous workshops

Five African scientists are to study at the University of Edinburgh as part of a scheme to tackle infectious diseases.

The experts – from Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa – will conduct research that seeks to reduce the burden of Africa’s most damaging diseases.

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By a unanimous decision of our Steering Committee taking at the Second Annual General Meeting held in Accra, September 2019, the TIBA Partnership has formally endorsed the ‘London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases’ .

For more information on the declaration, please visit https://unitingtocombatntds.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/london_declar...

Sponsor: NIHR Global Health Research Unit Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa at the University of Edinburgh (TIBA)

Date: September 16-18th 2019

Venue: Fiesta Royale Hotel, Accra, Ghana