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Traditional & faith healers are often the 1st point of contact for people affected by #NTDs. See more here ➡️ redressliberia.org/wp-content/upl… Collaborating together, we now have trained 120 traditional & faith healers in basic psychological support & awareness of NTDs in 🇱🇷 #WorldNTDDay

Meet Emmanuel Zazay, brilliant REDRESS co-researcher, who shares his lived experience of Buruli ulcer to inform NTD responses which are holistic, people centred, and address stigma. Listen to this great Connecting Citizens to Science episode #WorldNTDDay #beatntds

Starting now REDRESS Midterm review meeting in #margibi county #Liberia. Exciting - the room is packed w/NTD, mental & communtiy health policy makers & practitioners at all health systems levels, co- researchers, persons affected, #CHWs, faith & traditional leaders❤️🇱🇷👏

Emerson Rogers #MoH #Liberia “We thank god we integrated mental health with NTDs” he outlines the mental health integration process in REDRESS intervention roll out process at different health systems levels & the look, listen, link training LSTM National Institute for Health and Care Research

A total of 341 mid level workers, 72 lab techs, 88 CHSS, 60 mhGAP trained clinicians, 2034 CHAs/CHPs, 60 persons affected & 294 traditional & faith healers trained! Expertise within Master Trainers: Community Health, NTD, Mental Health Programmes, Lab systems specialists

Now NTD county focal points in each REDRESS intervention county. Jeremiah Davis (Grand Gedeh), Augustine Flomo (Margibi)) & Anthony Sali (Lofa) on realities pre Redress & strengths & weaknesses of intervention components & structures. Embedded learning for sustainability

Check out who was trained in the REDRESS intervention roll out - new, inclusive & patient centred partnerships in action. See impact of the training & interesting learning from observation. Great presentation John Smith and Jerry Kollie REDRESS fellows 👏

Powerful young woman advocate - thanks Devonte - bringing hope and inspiring others 🙏❤️🇱🇷REDRESS NIHR Global Health Health Systems Global LSTM

Brilliant REDRESS Research Fellows & Georgina Zawolo presenting evaluation pre & post intervention w/innovative methods: patient & health worker survey, photovoice, body mapping, social mapping. Key findings on case detection trends, supervision, patient journey & community perspectives

Yesterday, we used a world cafe method at our mid term review a new method in Liberia and enjoyed! I was on the relationships between health sector & faith & traditional healers table w/amazing Georgina Zawolo - all perspectives shared on strengths & challenges in REDRESS process

And here is some of the distilled learning from the world cafe which will feed into action planning and solution development in county teams this afternoon. Interesting learning - love “#NTDs & mental health should stay married”

Capacity strengthening & county exchange on #HR sections of the REDRESS intervention manual & Emmerson Rogers #NTDs #MoH #Liberia stressing centrality of patient centred approaches throughout

Day 2 starting with a recap from our World Cafe session yesterday, looking at what went well &what could be improved within all aspects of the intervention. Energised discussions w/ co-developed recommendations. Engaging presentations today in local dialect from fellows & team!🇱🇷

Meet our amazing peer advocates, chairs of support groups in their districts - Emmanuel & Francis from Lofa, Deconte from Grand Gedeh and Hawa from Margibi. Working hard to advocate, counsel, encourage others & raise awareness for issues affecting people with skin #NTDs #beatNTDS

Key experience sharing and capacity strengthening during skills building session on non cash awards and CHSS peer supervision & mental health screening 🇱🇷 #beatNTDs

It’s been a great privilege to work with and learn from Hawa, Francis, Emmanuel and Deconte this week on how we should improve integrated case management for #NTDs, including peer support groups and mental health integration! NNN Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases

On #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate the incredible women we are privileged to work with. Decontee & Haja are advocates with lived experience who chair support groups within their community, sat here with Georgina Zawolo our wonderful evaluation coordinator #IWD2023 #beatNTDs

Excellent presentation from Laura Dean on the findings from the @redress_liberia evaluation of an integrated, person-centered approach to identifying, diagnosing, referral & managing of #SkinNTDs - today at the first @who meeting on #SkinNTDs

What an amazing seminar with facilitator Associate Professor Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá on research integrity. Lots of themes for critical thinking for equitable reforms in global health research ecosystem.