Essay: Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID - Sight Magazine SARAH GREENE and PHILIP BUDGE say the Trump administration’s defunding of the USAID has created a "real-life Sisyphean struggle"...

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Fighting filariasis: India's grassroots approach to eliminating elephantiasis Despite carrying 40% of the global burden, India’s community-first approach, coupled with strong government coordination, is spurring progress toward a country free of lymphatic filariasis.

India is making remarkable strides in the fight against lymphatic filariasis (#elephantiasis) with community health workers leading the charge on the ground. A community-first strategy is key to elimination.

Read the inspiring story on @devex.com: https://bit.ly/43PWIWZ #BeatNTDs

Targeting Parasitic DHFR: Montclair State Students Advance Antifolate Drug Discovery for Lymphatic Filariasis At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, graduate students David Otu-Aboagye and Salma Kwarteng from Nina Goodey’s Lab at Montclair State University presented an engaging talk on their res...

Grad students David Otu-Aboagye & Salma Kwarteng are finding smarter antifolate drugs to target DHFR in Wuchereria bancrofti, the parasite behind lymphatic filariasis. Promising early hits, crystal structures! Read more: wix.to/cY9bn3B #LymphaticFilariasis #DrugDiscovery #GlobalHealth #elephantiasis

Zimbabwe rolls out mass drug administration campaign to tackle elephantiasis Lymphatic filariasis is a preventable parasitic infection. Once its effects become chronic, however, the disease can be permanently disabling and hard to manage.

A disease that disfigures, isolates and devastates: #Elephantiasis has met its match in Zimbabwe. Discover how health workers are fighting back: bit.ly/3Bpfeu9