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4/26/2019 Campaign Overview | Mailchimp MAY 2018 Dispatches From The Field (External) Campaign Preview HTML Source Plain-Text Email Details War-Torn Yemen Gets First Mass Treatment for Trachoma In Yemen’s “forgotten war,” a troop of health workers recently braved their way into remote villages carrying medicines provided by The Task Force’s International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) for the country’s. [...] The Task Force’s International Trachoma Initiative has managed Pfizer’s donation of more than 15 million doses of trachoma drug to Nepal for mass treatments to eliminate the disease -- the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness.  PUBLISHED: Eric Ottesen, MD, Director of the Task Force’s Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center (NTD-SC), has co-authored a paper in Tropical Medicine and Hea. [...] More PUBLISHED: The Task Force’s Mectizan® Donation Program Director Yao Sodahlon, MD, co-authored a paper in the journal, Parasites and Vectors, about (LF) surveillance after stopping mass drug administration in endemic districts of Togo. More AWARDS: Task Force program, TEPHINET, was recently honored with an award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for its excellent collaboratio. [...]   PUBLISHED: Kira Barbre, MPH, who provides technical support to operational research projects at NTD-SC, co-authored a paper on Equatorial Guinea’s interruption of onchocerciasis transmission in Bioko island – the only island in the world where river blindness is endemic. More CONFERENCE: TEPHINET held its 10th Regional Scientific Conference of the Americas at Cartagena, Columbia, from May 15-18. [...] Thank you for signing up to receive the latest updates about our work around the world to provide all people with equal access to the means for good health.