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- Innovation is essential for achieving the WHO's 2021-2030 goals for neglected tropical diseases, as it helps adapt to decreasing disease prevalence and increasing treatment costs.
- The Ascend Learning and Innovation Fund, active from 2019 to 2021, supported five diverse projects that focused on operational research, product development, and social behavioral change.
- This fund's flexible approach allowed it to effectively link strategic policy with real-world implementation, testing and validating new business models based on insights gained from the projects.
Article Abstract
Innovation plays a critical role in progress towards achievement of the World Health Organization's road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021-2030. As disease prevalence decreases, the cost to identify and treat remaining cases goes up. Additionally, as programmes move to the surveillance phase, diagnostic tests need to be highly sensitive and affordable. Until the early end to the Ascend West and Central Africa programme, the Ascend Learning and Innovation Fund supported five projects from 2019 to 2021. Designed for innovation, the fund encompassed a range of activities, including operational research, product development and social behavioural change. This flexibility allowed innovation to bridge the gap between strategic policy and practical implementation, piloting and proving business models to respond to information found through Ascend.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9492231 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihac011 | DOI Listing |
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