NTD research at ASTMH - LCNTDR posters

With over 70 separate presentations, symposia, posters and stalls at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 2017 annual meeting featuring or being led by researchers from either Imperial College London, LSHTM, the Royal Veterinary College or the Natural History Museum the research output of the LCNTDR members was exceptionally well represented at this year's meeting. 

Featured below are the findings of a selection of LCNTDR posters presented during the meeting:

• Testing for STH elimination: modelling the impact of different diagnostic tools
• Designing antifilarial drug trials using clinical trial simulators
• Water treatment for the removal of schistosome cercariae: a review and identification of research needs
• Understanding Perceptions and Experiences of Trachoma among the Maasai in Tanzania
• The potential for six-monthly mass administration of moxidectin to accelerate onchocerciasis elimination
• Socioeconomic factors associated with adherence to community directed treatment with ivermectin in onchocerciasis-endemic regions of Ghana
• Evolution of full age-infection profiles for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases following mass drug administration in Uganda: results from a three-year study
• Achieving global goals for schistosomiasis: rapidly reaching the 2020 and 2025 goals for control and elimination of morbidity