Anouk Gouvras

Next Tuesday, 2 December, we launch our 'Treated like a child' campaign. It’s the first step in understanding how to reach the thousands of pre-schoolers in Zanzibar at risk from parasitic disease. Please sign up for a reminder when the campaign begins: mailchi.mp/unlimithealt...

Blue background, right side has image of child, face obscured by a drinking cup. Left side writing and photos of speakers. Title: Optimising schistosomiasis treatment for preschool-aged children. A pragmatic approach from research to practice. Speakers Prof Amaya Bustinduy (LSHTM, UK) Dr Andrew Edielu (LSHTM UK & MRC–UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit) Dr Narcis B Kabatereine (Ministry of Health, Uganda) With remarks from Dr Amadou Garba (WHO) Wednesday 26 November 2025 | 13.00-14.30 UTC www.isntd.org/isntd-connect Underneath are two logos International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases. Global Schistosomiasis Alliance. #ISNTDConnect

Join us for this key webinar: Optimising schistosomiasis treatment for preschool-aged children - a pragmatic approach from research to practice
🗓️ 26 November 2025
🕐 13:00–14:30 UTC
🌐 English with French interpretation

Register via: www.isntd.org/isntd-connect

#Schistosomiasis #WorldChildrensDay

Britain’s canals and rivers face lack of funds amid climate pressures, campaigners warn Many waterways vulnerable to breaches and closures and face mounting maintenance costs, charity says

I have been raising the implications of lack of funding for the Canal and River Trust since becoming an MP, and more recently the issues facing our local canals due to a lack of infrastructure investment.

www.theguardian.com/environm...

Top facts about chalk streams Chalk streams are one of the rarest freshwater habitats, many of which are found in England’s National Parks.

Chalk streams are a rare and precious habitat💧

Many of which are found in England's National Parks🏞️

Sadly chalk streams are under threat thanks to over abstraction – removal of water from a natural source for uses such as drinking water🚰

More about chalk streams 👉
www.cnp.org.uk/blog/top-fac...

Last week Labour MPs rejected an amendment that would protect chalk streams from development. Here’s why are chalks streams are so important and why development puts them at risk ⬇️

[2/2] La comparaison révèle de forts contrastes territoriaux. Le Nil n’apparaît pas dans le top 30 avec seulement 3.075 m³/s. L’évaporation dans le Sahara réduit drastiquement son débit. Ces écarts illustrent le rôle décisif du climat dans la puissance fluviale. #geography #hydrology #riverpower

Inside Kenya's ambitious target to eliminate bilharzia by 2030 It is one of the 17 neglected tropical diseases found in Kenya.

Inside #Kenya's ambitious target to eliminate #bilharzia by 2030
www.the-star.co.ke/news/2025-11... via @thestarkenya.bsky.social

🎗️ 17 Nov is #CervicalCancerElimination Day.
Female genital schistosomiasis (#FGSchisto) affects millions of women and girls, yet it is invisible in cervical cancer strategies.
FGS ↑ risk of HPV/HIV & mimics cervical cancer.
🧩Integration saves lives.
Learn more: bit.ly/FIG-schisto
#BeatNTDs #SRHR

We are launching a photo competition!

We want our members & Fellows to capture the intersection between global health and technology, and how the digital revolution – including artificial intelligence – is changing how we practice healthcare.

Apply now: www.rstmh.org/news-blog/bl...

COP30 Health Pavilion WHO in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the health community will host the Health Pavilion at the COP30 UN Climate Conference, taking place in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. The…

#Climatechange is redrawing the risk map for infectious diseases like #schistosomiasis. At #COP30, lets action climate-resilient health systems = #climatejustice is #healthjustice.

Check out the Health Pavilion- organized by @who.int , @wellcometrust.bsky.social

🌍 Join us at #COP30 for an important discussion on climate change and infectious diseases.

Hosted by @cepi.net, @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social, @gavi.org, @mmv.org, @unitaid.bsky.social, and DNDi.

💻 Click here to watch live: who.int/news-room/ev...

Dark background fading to lighter grey from left to right. Top right stylized graphic of a schistosome worm pair in light blug and light green. Bottom right scannable QR code, bottom left cartoon image of woman in blue jumper at a table with a laptop. Text says: Schistosomiasis research at ASTMH Annual Meeting in Toronto. Want to stay on top of the latest schistosomiasis research and innovation? Wondering where to find all the schisto-focused talks, posters and symposiums? We've got you covered. https://bit.ly/47xCp1v

🎓 Are you heading to @astmh.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Toronto?

📍 Wondering where to find all the schisto-focused talks, posters, and symposia?

We’ve got you covered.

🔗 Explore our guide to all things #schistosomiasis at #ASTMH2025:
👉 buff.ly/GiSXKyM

Join us Nov 6 (3–4:30 PM EAT) for a webinar on bridging the gap between research & policy for #NTDs amid shifting funding.

👉 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Dark green background, outline maps of Zanzibar and Malawi with two arrows pointed in opposite directions in between them. Text reads: "Zanzibar x Malawi: South-south Learning in Action. A cross-country exchange on schistosomiasis control, snail surveillance, and sustainable solutions. Read the full story." Arrow pointing right.

Dark blue background. Top right-hand side has a yellow light bulb icon with a leafy plant in the middle. The text below reads: "Lessons and Next Steps" With the following bullet points: "Snail control must be context-specific. Regulatory and financing pathways matter. South-South collaboration accelerates innovation. Continued exchange and co-creation ahead. Read the full blog: http://bit.ly/4qMAejB "

🌍 South–South collaboration in action: Zanzibar x Malawi on #schistosomiasis:
🔹 Snail vector techniques & ecological considerations
🔹 Cross-sector collaboration
🔹 Adapting Zanzibar’s approach to Malawi’s context
🔹#SouthSouthCooperation drive sustainable #BeatNTDs solutions
📖: buff.ly/4QmUbWx

A little terror for your Tuesday!

Basket star filmed by ROV pilots at ~270 m during the #Taleof2Canyons — these many-armed ophiuroids capture prey w/ease. Escape is unlikely thanks to tiny hooks & sticky mucus-covered limbs. Once ensnared, tube feet shuttle the meal towards the animal’s mouth.

Multi-country outbreak of cholera, external situation report #31 -29 October 2025 Edition 31

From January to 28 September 2025, over 518K cholera cases and 6,508 deaths have been reported across 32 countries. The deaths have already surpassed last year’s toll.

Read more: bit.ly/432IFwT

Orange background with geometric shapes in light orange and white. GSA logo in the top right hand corner. Writing: Check out our Schisto Research Update. Newsletter with research grants, funding and articles. #StopSchisto

Check out the latest research & training funding opportunities, news, articles and upcoming events is the October 2025 issue of the #Schistosomiasis Research Update newsletter.

Read is here: mailchi.mp/22f28fa98252...

Long-standing photosynthesis mystery solved as missing chlorophylls found | Imperial News | Imperial College London A new discovery reveals the key pigment behind far-red photosynthesis, a new, low-energy form of oxygenic photosynthesis.

Very cool! www.imperial.ac.uk/news/270033/...

What do recent findings on insect sentience and welfare mean for vector research and control? In the field of public health, we conduct a variety of experiments and studies on insects, such as mosquitoes, to advance vector-borne disease research. However entomologists’ variable knowledge and a...

BugBitten's latest blog from @scianouk.bsky.social looking at the recent findings on insect sentience - what implications will this have on vector control? go.nature.com/47jeJ1S

What do recent findings on insect sentience and welfare mean for vector research and control? In the field of public health, we conduct a variety of experiments and studies on insects, such as mosquitoes, to advance vector-borne disease research. However entomologists’ variable knowledge and a...

Inspired by @rsb.org.uk article on insect sentience, I wrote this piece for @springernature.com #ResearchCommunities with a vector-borne #disease angle

"What do recent findings on insect sentience and welfare mean for vector research and control?"

communities.springernature.com/posts/what-d...

BBC Two - Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth David Attenborough discusses the coelacanth, a living fossil hidden for 400 million years.

Watching #DavidAttenborough 's Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the #Coelocanth - its AWE-some!!!

The coelocanth is truly mesmerising.
If interested definitely read "A Fish Caught In Time: The search for the coelocanth" its a great book.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#deepsea #marine #fish #livingfossil

Six-legged suffering Are insects sentient?

Sentient insects & welfare in #research @rsb.org.uk @tomireland.bsky.social Mind-blown! "As the most diverse animal order on Earth, insects should be expected to have exceptionally diverse cognitive powers, perhaps a greater range than we see in vertebrates."
thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...

Going to 14th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health #ECTMIH?

Wondering which sessions to go to and which posters to look out for?

Check out this list of #schistosomiasis related sessions, talks, posters here: www.eliminateschisto.org/news-events/...
#BetterHealthForAll

What does integration mean for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)? Watch our quick guide.

In early October we will be hosting an open evening on Academic Clinical Fellowships & Lectureships in Infectious Diseases across all the London programmes.

These are integrated clinical academic training programmes for doctors training in the UK.

You can sign up here: forms.gle/T867P8qQ2SMvvHhZ9

Malawi set to run out of TB drugs in a month after US, UK and others cut aid Gains in cutting deaths from tuberculosis at risk as health officials warn clinics forced to ration drugs and testing

#Malawi set to run out of TB drugs in a month after US, UK and others cut aid

Gains in cutting deaths from tuberculosis at risk as health officials warn clinics forced to ration drugs and testing

Leonard Masauli in Lilongwe ✍️

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

📢 New podcast: A holistic view of health 🎧
Our latest Infectious Conversations episode explores One Health, a holistic approach that connects people, animals and the planet. Listen now: soundcloud.com/unlimithealt...

Increased risk of infectious diseases in a time of war and conflict Krisztian Magori reviews the horrid history of the impact of war and conflict on infectious diseases, the protection provided to civilians by international humanitarian law, and the track-record of co...

Increased risk of infectious diseases in a time of war and conflict

"War and conflict throughout history have resulted in the suffering and deaths of countless people who did not participate as combatants"

communities.springernature.com/posts/increa...

Tissue-specific distribution of eggs in the definitive host drives transcriptomic and behavioral differences in Schistosoma mansoni miracidia Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by human-infective schistosomes (Trematoda: Schistosoma). Intestinal schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa and the Neotropics is caused primarily...

I am pleased to present a project we've been working on for the least year to try to answer a fundamental question - does a parasite's developmental niche as an egg have effects on larval stages? We show that the answer is very much yes - which has a few implications. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...