FCDO - COUNTDOWN: Programme of Implementation Research to Inform the Effective and Sustainable Scaling-Up of Integrated Neglected Tropical Disease Control Initiatives
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Description
COUNTDOWN is a 7-year (2014-2021) programme of implementation research supporting the scale-up of appropriate interventions in sub-Saharan Africa against NTDs amenable to preventive chemotherapy approaches. COUNTDOWN brings together researchers from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, from health care providers, policy makers, laboratory scientists, research uptake specialists, Ministries of Health and Non-Governmental Development Organisations. COUNTDOWN’s intended future impact is to “Reduce morbidity, mortality and poverty associated with NTDs from application of new evidence for cost effective scale-up of sustained control and targeted elimination of disease in line with the WHO 2020 NTD Roadmap and the 2030 SDGs” and to improve availability, acceptability affordability, and accessibility of NTD interventions to individuals and communities.
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- Council for Scientific & Industrial Research
- FHI 360
- Ghana Health Service
- Institute of Development Studies
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Sight Savers
- University of Buea
- University of Liberia - Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation
- University of Yaounde
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