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Sightsavers’ Simon Bush has received a lifetime achievement award for his work on river blindness, and has been named president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

October 2022

Ophthalmic nurse Suraju helps a young girl wash her hands using water from a teapot.

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Sightsavers and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene are hosting an event with experts from the Ascend West and Central Africa programme to share key learnings.

September 2022

Sightsavers CEO Caroline Harper smiles alongside two colleagues. She's holding a pen. In the background are some brightly lit skyscrapers.

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The funding, which will be spent between now and 2025, will help to protect millions of people from the harmful effects of NTDs.

June 2022

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Meet Samson, a trachoma surgeon who’s saving people’s sight by performing pop-up operations and outreach in remote communities in Kenya.

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Since 1991, Sightsavers been helping Mali’s ministry of health to treat and prevent this blinding disease. Now the country is on track to banish it for good.

Six schoolchildren sit on the floor around a board game that they're playing.

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Schools in Kenya, Ethiopia and Guinea are using educational board games to teach children about the importance of good hygiene to help eliminate trachoma.

Two women stand in a flooded area outside a house, where they are checking a mosquito trap.

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To tackle disease, we need to know who is affected. In Liberia, Sightsavers has studied mosquitoes and tested children to see how urban migration affects the spread of lymphatic filariasis.

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Salifat experienced painful swelling in her leg for a year before she was visited by a local health worker, who told her she had lymphatic filariasis and taught her to manage her symptoms.

A large group of people stand on the main stage at the World Water Forum.

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Sightsavers’ Salimata Bocoum shares learnings, actions and reflections from the World Water Forum, where the importance of working together to fight neglected tropical diseases was a key theme.

Salimata Bocoum, April 2022

A man stands in a fast-flowing river examining foliage for black flies.

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Sightsavers and the Walker Institute will explore different climate change scenarios to predict areas that will be most affected by neglected tropical diseases in the future.

March 2022

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Sightsavers director rewarded for his work on neglected tropical diseases

Sightsavers and RSTMH host learning event on major tropical disease programme

Sightsavers pledges at least US$25 million to help beat neglected tropical diseases

“I was the first trachoma surgeon in my region”

The last mile: paving the way to eliminating river blindness in Mali

Captain Clean: teaching children about hygiene through games

Catching the urban mosquito: how our research protects communities from NTDs

“I’m able to do things I couldn’t do before”

Collaboration is key: lessons from the World Water Forum

Sightsavers partnership aims to research the impact of climate change on NTDs

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