28th-30th September 2017, Dakar, Senegal

MYT were the appointed PCO to the 8th NTD NGO Network summit which was opened at the King Fahd Palace Hotel, Dakar, Senegal.

The summit hosted more than 250 participants from 100 organisations and 49 countries discussed the importance of cross-sector collaboration in ending the Tropical Neglected Diseases that affect one billion of the world’s poorest people.

Wendy Harrison, Chair of the NNN and Executive Director of Schistosomiasis Control Initiative at Imperial College London, said in her opening address: “I’m delighted to be chairing this important conference. Building on the successes of previous NNN conferences, this year we have an even greater focus on working together to generate solutions to the challenges we face.”