Location: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Type of event: Stakeholder roundtable
Description: Swiss TPH will be present at the National Day of Sleeping Sickness activities in the DRC, a local initiative that brings together international partners to concert efforts in the elimination of this NTD in DRC.
For more information: soledad.castano@swisstph.ch
Selected secondary schools in rural areas of Ibadan education on NTDs with major emphasis on Trypanosomiasis and Onchocerciasis.
We have a special seminar on NTDs (Schistosomiasis) for the medical school community co-sponsored by the Program in Molecular Medicine and The Li Weibo Institute for Rare Diseases Research.
We offer two main activities for the celebration of this day: a. Media communication day on MTN 01/29/2020 which will consist of awareness raising programs on preventive measures against NTDs through a synergy of our 30 media already partners (2 hour interactive program with an expert on MTN to broadcast simultaneously on partner radios and televisions);