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Frontline workers push Guinea worm disease to the brink of eradication
over 8 years ago // Neglected tropical diseases
Three decades after it began, the campaign to end Guinea worm disease is reaching its last mile, with just 25 cases so far this year. Frontline workers told Devex how they did it, from village to village.
WHO pivots to the field, setting up potential clash with donors
over 8 years ago // World Health Organization
The World Health Organization's regional director for Africa described how the organization is already rethinking its staff, structure, and modus operandi for a more active field presence, despite calls from donors to stick a more traditional guideline-setting role.
Q&A: What needs to be done to eliminate river blindness in Africa
over 8 years ago // Neglected tropical diseases
A new joint fund puts river blindness and lymphatic filariasis on the docket for the next diseases the would could eliminate. The Carter Center's director for river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, and malaria programs told Devex what a successful intervention could look like, and how it could be a treatment game changer.
Exclusive: Gates Foundation sees Gulf, China as most promising markets for future partnering
over 8 years ago // Funding global health
The Gulf countries and China are home to some of the largest pools of untapped philanthropic and donor potential in the fight for global health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation CSO Mark Suzman tells Devex.
Exclusive: New $100M fund to eradicate river blindness and lymphatic filariasis
over 8 years ago // Neglected tropical diseases
Abu Dhabi's crown prince and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched a new $100 million Reaching the Last Mile Fund to eradicate river blindness and lymphatic filariasis in key countries in the Middle East and Africa.
Q&A: Saudi Arabia as a new social impact investor in Africa
over 8 years ago // Development finance
Emerging market fund managers and development officials were among the 3,500 guests who came to Riyadh this week to find out what opportunities Saudi Arabia's newly launched sovereign wealth fund could offer for the continent. Michelle Essomé, CEO of the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, tells Devex how the continent can find new opportunities for impact.
Riyadh looks across the Red Sea: What Saudi investors could mean for Africa
over 8 years ago // Saudi Arabia
African investors, businessmen, and entrepreneurs joined the launch event for Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund seeking opportunities and ways to attract new Gulf investment for the continent's development.
Exclusive: MSF cuts cholera operation from Yemen as cases diminish
over 8 years ago // Yemen Crisis
Seeing a declining caseload, Médecins Sans Frontières will roll back its cholera operations in Yemen. The country continues to face a host of health challenges.
As US interest wanes, UNICEF pivots strategy
over 8 years ago // UN Reform
The U.N. Children's Agency is prioritizing building local institutions, drawing on domestic resources in a global environment that has seen donor attention and buying power wane.
Exhibition aims to champion disease eradication as it happens
over 8 years ago // Guinea worm eradication
An exhibition opening this week in Abu Dhabi, Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease, aims to bring public attention to disease eradication during the last mile — the hardest moment in the fight.