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Your Gifts at Work: January-March 2024
Mosquito Spray in Bihar | West Africa Travel | Jagruti Nepal | Health Worker Training |
Your Gifts at Work: October-December 2023
Transform Liberia | Skin NTDs Labnet | Nigeria Med Shipment | Footwear in Bihar | Annual Report
Your Gifts at Work: July-September 2023
Africa Filming Trip | COMPREHENSIV training | Jagruti Projects FY23 | NTD Innovation Prize
Africa 2023: Finding Stories of Hope
In August, several of our staff from the U.S. and U.K. visited ALM partners and projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ghana. It was a whirlwind experience, full of field trips, site visits and conversations…
Your Gifts at Work: April-June 2023
Faith Leaders Trauma Training | Breaking Strongholds – Ghana | Bihar NTD Clinic + Footwear |
Jagruti Projects Impact
The Jagruti Projects: Your 2023 Impact in India and Nepal
We’ve reached the end of our fiscal year, so we can report some exciting numbers from a year of advocacy and WASH + NTDs education across India and Nepal!
One Lesson Changes a Life: Field Update from Jagruti Nepal
So often, neglected tropical diseases like leprosy destroy lives because critical health information remains out of reach. That’s why, with your generous support, we make training and community education a central part of our programs.
Harnessing the ‘Power of What is Possible’ to End Neglected Tropical Diseases
This year the U.S. marks 20 years of PEPFAR: the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. American Leprosy Missions (ALM) believes this program lights a path forward for combatting another global health threat: neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
Press
American Leprosy Missions Awards Fifth NTD Innovation Prize
(Greenville, S.C., September 21, 2023) – American Leprosy Missions announced the winner of their fifth annual NTD Innovation Prize during the closing plenary of the 14th Annual Neglected Tropical Diseases NGO Network (NNN) Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
American Leprosy Missions Launches Groundbreaking Skin Disease Diagnostics Development with Funding Support from Anesvad Foundation
With funding from the Anesvad Foundation and the Raoul Follereau Foundation, ALM will apply its experience in diagnostic assay development to create a multiplex assay to simultaneously detect five skin NTDs.
Premier Anti-Leprosy Organization Breaks Barriers to Health with USAID ASHA in Nepal
Nepal has one of the world’s highest numbers of new leprosy cases each year. American Leprosy Missions has been active in Nepal since 1982. This year, ALM marks the completion and initiation of two USAID ASHA grants for partner hospitals in Nepal.
American Leprosy Missions Awards Fourth NTD Innovation Prize
(Greenville, S.C., September 15, 2022) – During the closing plenary of the 13th Annual Neglected Tropical Diseases NGO Network (NNN) Conference, American Leprosy Missions awarded the fourth annual NTD Innovation Prize of $40,000.
116-Year-Old Organization Renews Commitment to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases by Signing Kigali Declaration
(Greenville, S.C., June 21, 2022) American Leprosy Missions is a signatory to the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), a new global health commitment that will be celebrated during the Kigali Summit…
Oldest U.S. Anti-Leprosy Organization Awarded Seventh USAID ASHA Grant
(Greenville, S.C., October 13, 2021) American Leprosy Missions, a global leader in the fight against leprosy, was recently awarded a four-year grant of more than $900,000 from the U.S. Agency for…
American Leprosy Missions Awards $41,000 for Innovation in NTDs
(Greenville, S.C., September 9, 2021) ⸺ American Leprosy Missions, a platinum sponsor of the 12th Annual Neglected Tropical Diseases NGO Network Conference, announced the two winners…
Training Program Success with Ghana Health Services Leads to Nationwide Access to Quality Care for People Affected by Lymphatic Filariasis
(Greenville, S.C., December 9, 2020) — The South Carolina-based global health organization, American Leprosy Missions, in partnership with Ghana Health Services, has successfully designed…