TY - JOUR
KW - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
KW - General Medicine
KW - Health (social science)
KW - Health System Strengthening
AU - Rowan S
AU - Amodu-Agbi P
AU - Weil O
AU - Northway D
AU - Ene N
AU - Gwom A
AU - Pavluck A
AB - <p>Abstract</p>

<p>The Ascend West and Central Africa programme, a UK aid-funded programme, was implemented across 12 countries. The programme focused on strengthening national health systems for sustainable neglected tropical disease (NTD) control and elimination. This commentary presents how Ascend's approach contributed to developing country-driven sustainable systems for NTDs and offers learnings to inform future sustainable NTD programming.</p>

BT - International Health
DO - 10.1093/inthealth/ihac012
IS - Supplement_2
LA - Eng
N2 - <p>Abstract</p>

<p>The Ascend West and Central Africa programme, a UK aid-funded programme, was implemented across 12 countries. The programme focused on strengthening national health systems for sustainable neglected tropical disease (NTD) control and elimination. This commentary presents how Ascend's approach contributed to developing country-driven sustainable systems for NTDs and offers learnings to inform future sustainable NTD programming.</p>

PB - Oxford University Press (OUP)
PY - 2022
SP - 64
EP - 66
T2 - International Health
TI - How has the Ascend programme contributed to strengthening health systems for sustainable country-driven neglected tropical disease programming?
UR - https://academic.oup.com/inthealth/article-pdf/14/Supplement_2/ii64/45751548/ihac012.pdf
VL - 14
SN - 1876-3413, 1876-3405
ER -