In 2021, GLIDE launched its first call for proposals for the Falcon Awards for Disease Elimination, inviting disease elimination stakeholders in endemic countries to submit proposals that aim to accelerate the elimination of one or more of GLIDE’s four focus diseases: malaria, polio, lymphatic filariasis, and onchocerciasis. Four winning projects were selected to accelerate disease elimination in their respective countries.
This Falcon Awards initiative carried out a series of targeted field studies in the Oti Region in Ghana to refine the multi-village model for preventing river blindness and identify the best treatment strategies for the disease. Results from the study will also help in redefining transmission zones for other neglected tropical diseases programmes, ensuring these zones are targeted with specific interventions.
In partnership with: Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Ghana
