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IDDO launched a new global scientific collaboration dedicated to schistosomiasis and STHs with TDR (the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases). This aims to expand data re-use and collaboration and accelerate better treatment and control of these diseases, which affect more than a billion people globally.

Ascaris worms © Adult ascaris from child in Congo. Credit: Johnny Vlaminck