Egbe Bertille Obi
@EgbeBertilleObi
Christ-driven| Passionate Public Speaker📢|Interests: Public Health Communication| PD| Advocacy| Program Comms Officer Helen Keller Intl🌍| All views are mine
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21-03-2013 19:46:43
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World Health Organization (WHO) declared #Mali has eliminated #trachoma as a public health problem. 🇲🇱
A milestone decades in the making with support from Helen Keller Intl, The Carter Center, Sightsavers, and funding from @HiltonFound.
More: helenkellerintl.org/our-stories/pa…
#BeatNTDs #EndTrachoma
Niger🇳🇪 is the first sub-Saharan African country to #submit an #OnchocerciasisEliminationDossier to the World Health Organization (WHO), with the technical and financial support FHI 360-led Act to End NTDs | West program and Helen Keller Intl among others.
Niger has just submitted their elimination dossier to World Health Organization (WHO)! If approved, the country would become the first sub-Saharan African nation to eliminate #onchocerciasis .
#BeatNTDs USAID USAIDGH Helen Keller Intl
Proud to work alongside such incredible partners on this amazing achievement #beatNTDs
Amen HealthCare Gates Foundation The Carter Center CBM Inclusive Eye Health The END Fund HANDSNigeria Helen Keller Intl MSD mitosath Sightsavers UNICEF Nigeria RTI fights NTDs USAID CDC World Health Organization (WHO)
Panel discussion on the occasion of #WorldNTDDay2023 with Dr Alie Wurie from MoH Ibrahim Sesay from TAC & Mohamed Bah of Helen Keller Intl in chat with Umaru Fofana talking about the successes, challenges & #Sustainability USEmbassyFreetown Act to End NTDs | West USAID @moped2022
After years of hard work, Ministère de la santé publique Niger has developed a multisectoral, sustainable plan of action to control and eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases #NTDs in Niger 🇳🇪
#EndtheNeglect Ministère de la santé publique Niger USAID Global Health Helen Keller Intl Act to End NTDs | West
Helen Keller Intl & MinsanteCameroun #DPS participated in the International Congress of #Nutrition 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣ ICN2022 in Tokyo
Congrats to our #VitaminA Supplementation M&E Cons. Dr Brice Saha for receiving an Award in recognition of substantial contributions to the field of Nutrition
Thanks to the USAID funded Act to End NTDs | West program, there has been a lot of progress towards eliminating trachoma as a public health problem in Niger🇳🇪 despite insecurity.
Follow the Poster session bit.ly/3NoX79l ASTMH #TropMed2022
Quotes from the field: Mamadou M. Bah, Helen Keller Intl 🇬🇳 NTD Program Director:
'Sight is priceless but it does have a cost. I agree to take free drugs distributed during MDA to avoid blindness.'
#WorldSightDay2022 #NTDsInSight #BeatNTDs
Today is #WorldSightDay2022 ! Our partners are working hand-in-hand 🤝 with countries to treat & prevent sight-robbing diseases such as river blindness & trachoma.
Act to End NTDs | West RTI fights NTDs The Carter Center Coalition for Operational Research on NTDs ICTC
#NTDsinSight
Quotes from the field:
Patrick Mbia, Helen Keller Intl 🇨🇲 NTD Program Advisor, speaks on the importance of eye health and combating eye-related #NTDs like #onchocerciasis and #trachoma for #WorldSightDay2022
#NTDs InSight