Reports from the FieldGlobal Network members in the field use a strategy called "Community Directed Treatment" in order to successfully distribute drugs to those who suffer from NTDs. The Community-Directed Treatment (CDT) empowers local communities to fight NTDs in their own villages, relieving suffering and slowing transmission. Community Drug Treatment Distributors are chosen by the community and are trained to distribute drugs to those living in hard to reach areas. Distributors are perceived by the community as those possessing attributes of honesty, good conduct, integrity and trustworthiness. To learn about the NTD work currently being completed on the ground, please follow the links below: RWANDA BURUNDI MEET THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR: PROFESSOR ALAN FENWICK Professor Fenwick has spent his working life in Africa specializing in schistosomiasis. He went to Tanzania as a malacologist in 1966, and moved to Sudan in 1971, employed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He ran the applied research component of the Blue Nile Health Project. After 17 years in Sudan he was awarded an OBE, and moved to manage a $39.6 million USAID project in Egypt (1988-1998). He then stayed in Egypt managing a schistosomiasis vaccine development project for USAID, concurrently assisting implementation of the National Schistosomiasis Control Project. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in awarding this grant, have allowed Professor Fenwick to fulfill his dream to help countries in Sub Saharan Africa to control morbidity due to schistosomiasis. In October 2004, he became Professor of Tropical Parasitology at Imperial College London. Last April, the Minister of Health of Burkina Faso, the Hon. Alain Yoda, recognized Professor Fenwick and his team with the honor and title of Chevalier of the Ordre National for their implementation of a schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth control program in the effort to control NTDs in Burkina Faso. They were presented the Chevalier medal and ribbon in the presence of over 2000 dignitaries and the Governor of the Province.  Artemis Koukounari (SCI Biostatician), Marie-Alice Deville (SCI Program Officer) and Kari Stoever (Directorof the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases) |
THE TEAM WORKING IN RWANDA AND BURUNDI
  Dr. Alain Toe (WHO staff in Burundi), Dr. Alan Fenwick (Director of Schistosomiasis Control Initiative) and Dr. Mahmoud Balde (WHO staff in Rwanda)
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