News & Blogs
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12 October 2017
The final steps in leprosy eradication in Myanmar?
Despite ongoing efforts to control leprosy in Myanmar, the last decade has seen little change in the incidence of disease.
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26 September 2017
LASER are hiring: Research Assistant - Epidemiology and GIS
The London Applied and Spatial Epidemiology Research Group
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15 September 2017
School-based malaria testing and treatment given the thumbs up by teachers and children
Primary school teachers are perceived as acceptable and trusted providers of malaria diagnosis and treatment for school-going children in Malawi.
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8 September 2017
Myanmar’s integrated approach to mapping and controlling NTDs
Public health stakeholders from Myanmar are taking steps to improve the mapping and surveillance of leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and trachoma, LASER...
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30 August 2017
LASER are hiring: Research Fellow - Epidemiologist
The London Applied and Spatial Epidemiology Research Group
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7 July 2017
Free Training Materials - Improving NTD mapping by integrating case-management and disease data
Cameroon’s Ministry of Public Health recently hosted an innovative disease mapping training course to equip public health specialists with the skil
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6 July 2017
LASER are hiring: Research Fellow - Spatial Epidemiology
The London Applied and Spatial Epidemiology Research Group
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20 June 2017
LASER are hiring: Research Assistant - Epidemiology and GIS
The London Applied and Spatial Epidemiology Research Group
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14 June 2017
New modelling approach to identifying Loa loa prevalence
A major challenge facing mass drug administration (MDA) programmes targeting the control and elimination of lymphatic filariasis or onchocerciasis
Blog
25 May 2017
Innovative TUMIKIA research project nears completion
Over the past two years, researchers from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Kenya Medical Research Institute have been...
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19 May 2017
Business Daily Africa focuses on Kenya's deworming efforts
Business Daily Africa's Sarah Ooko highlights the work of Kenya's Ministry of Health and LSHTM researchers to tackle neglected tropical diseases
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12 May 2017
ESPEN’s NTD website goes live
The World Health Organisation’s Expanded Special Project for Elimina
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4 May 2017
A new initiative to map a little known disease brings hope of elimination
Even amongst public health professionals podoconiosis (or endemic non-filarial elephantiasis) is one of the more neglected of the neglected tropica
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4 April 2017
Bringing NTD data to the masses
Reliable, up-to-date maps and data identifying the location and levels of parasitic worm infections are essential tools in the targeting and...
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24 March 2017
A complicated relationship – the effect of community sanitation usage on worm infections in Ethiopian children
Globally, in 2010, an estimated 1.5 billion people were infected with at least one species of soil-transmitted helminth (STH), Ascaris lumbrico
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16 March 2017
International Workshop on Disease Mapping in Low-resource Settings: 14-15 Sept
LASER member and MRC Fellow
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21 February 2017
TUMIKIA Baseline data presented at KASH 2017
The findings from 160,000 households surveyed for the TUMIKIA research were presented for the first time to the Kenya Medical Research Institute (K
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14 February 2017
New research on how best to eliminate STH infections of Kenyan school children.
A new paper published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty has identified that whilst more frequent deworming reduces infection amongst school-aged...
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3 February 2017
Are the drugs working? The need to monitor deworming efficacy
The World Health Organisation estimate that around 1.5
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1 February 2017
TUMIKIA is hiring - Data and field officers wanted
We are recruiting data officers and field officers for an 11-week engagement working on the
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9 January 2017
Research leadership award for LASER’s Dr Stella Kepha
LASER Research Fellow, Dr Stella Kepha has been awarded a prestigious THRiVE post-doctoral fellowship to support her work in exploring the use of m
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9 December 2016
Deworming 300,000 in Kenya – a photo essay
In October and November 2016, researchers from the London Applied &am
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24 November 2016
How do women perceive the risks and rewards of deworming during pregnancy?
It is unfortunately common practice for women of reproductive age to be excluded from