Just as health is not just the absence of disease, public health is not the absence of outbreaks. This is why we need universal health coverage — time to commit for #HealthForAll

The Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit of CSIR-Water Research Institute and CSIR-Crops Research Institute is assisting Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research & the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research with testing of #Coronavirus cases. #COVIDー19 #StayHome #StaySafe. mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/…

#HappyEaster #HeIsRisen #LetsFightCOVID19Together #StayHome #StaySafe

Ongoing COVID-19 testing at the Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit of the CSIR-Water Research Institute. Detection of the virus is by real-time TaqMan reverse transcription PCR. #LetsFightCOVID19Together #StayHome #StaySafe

The President’s call on and support for scientific institutions in Ghana to work together to combat #COVID19GHANA are yielding results. #GhanaIsWorkingAgainstCovid19

We're v happy to share a new COUNTDOWNonNTDS paper this afternoon on detecting Schistosoma Mansoni infections in pre-school aged children in Southern Ghana 🇬🇭 Samuel Armoo Lucas Cunningham Suzy Campbell Mike Osei-Atweneboan Russell Stothard Emily Adams LSTM_NTDs #Beatntds link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186/s…

Well done COUNTDOWNGH and CSIR-Water Research Institute important work for Global Schistosomiasis Alliance and Merck with paediatric praziquantel formulation

Molecular diagnostics at the Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit CSIR-Water Research Institute in collaboration with COUNTDOWNGH has identified Pre-school-aged children at risk of intestinal schistosomiasis in Ghana rdcu.be/b3I8M

Happy Friday all! We'd like to share a new COUNTDOWNonNTDS article which looks at expanded community wide Schisto treatment in 3 communities in Greater Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭Lucas Cunningham Suzy Campbell Samuel Armoo Russell Stothard Emily Adams Mike Osei-Atweneboan #BeatNTDs journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

Respected parasitologist A/Prof. Warwick Grant has received significant funding support from the NIH for an international project aimed at eliminating Onchocerciasis—a debilitating disease that threatens over 200 million people in Africa. now.latrobe/river-blindnes… #RiverBlindness

In our new blog post, LSTM' Motto Nganda chats with Mike Osei-Atweneboan & Samuel Armoo from Council for Scientific and Industrial Research #Ghana COUNTDOWNGH about impacts of #COVID19 in Ghana🇬🇭 & how the pandemic is impacting #NTD activities #BeatNTDs 👉bit.ly/3ffPdMP

Join us for our next #HPIseminarseries at 1PM (MDT) on Tuesday (04/08) via Zoom! Dr. Doyle (@stephen__doyle ) (Wellcome Sanger Institute), will be presenting his work on "Building chromosomal-scale genomes to understand helminth biology and control" (ucalgary.ca/hpi/news-event…)

Join us for a remote seminar. Wellcome Sanger Institute

Thank you Samuel Armoo and now Dr Chris Sanders from The Pirbright Institute will present: "Cracking sandfly dispersal with eggs: adaptation of an immunomarking technique for use with phlebotomine sandflies" ow.ly/15od50ESlbt #Gnatwork21 #entomology #sandflies Rod Dillon

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I am excited to be working with the amazing team: Lydia Mosi Jack Richards Samuel Armoo and our PhD student Maame Ekua Acquah. I am grateful to Gordon Awandare for his support and giving us access to facilities at WACCBIP

VaZico training day. Thanks to all trainees and collaborators Lydia Mosi Samuel Armoo Peter Kojo Quashie Charley Q Thanks to BSAC for the generous funding and to ZiP Diagnostics for sponsoring.

Great project running in four institutions: ZiP Diagnostics WACCBIP Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research CSIR-Water Research Institute Team: Charles Narh Jack Richards Lydia Mosi Samuel Armoo Peter Kojo Quashie Charley Q PhD student: Maame Ekua Acquah RA: Kwabena Gideon Field/Lab Team: WACCBIP CSIR-Water Research Institute Funding: BSAC

Interested in worms, drug resistance, and doing your PhD supported by a stellar group of supervisors? Check out our PhD project "Measuring the impact of treatment regimes on the evolution of anthelmintic resistance" (shorturl.at/ozAHW). Deadline 17th March