New York/Berlin, 12.09.2023 - The Research Networks for Health Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa (RHISSA) were presented at the Science Summit of the 78th General Assembly. RHISSA has been a major funding initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since 2016.
The director of the TAkeOff programme (Tackling the Obstacles to Fight Filarial infections and podoconiosis), Prof. Dr Alexander Yaw Debrah, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and Prof. Dr Achim Hörauf, co-director of the programme, UKB Bonn, Germany presented beside others the network. The consortium of researchers from Ghana, Tanzania, Cameroon and Germany aim to improve the morbidity management of lymphatic filariasis (LF) and podoconiosis.
