A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS MADE A DONATION TO SCI THROUGH OUR 'JustGiving' PAGE AND www.givingwhatwecan.org.  Your support is vital to ensure we continue to help the millions of sub-Saharan Africans afflicted with NTDs. 

A special thank you to Dr Toby Ord and Dr Bernadette Young for their initiative and for recommending SCI as a charity where donors can achieve high impact with their donation.

"www.givewhatwecan" commends SCI as their selected charity

Our vision at SCI (Schistosomiasis Control Initiative) is a world free of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). This would allow the world’s poorest populations to be healthier, develop fully, learn effectively, raise families, and be productive members of their communities, thereby helping to realise the Millennium Development Goals of sustainable poverty reduction (www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.html).

Neglected tropical diseases are now on the international agenda. The successes achieved to-date prove that the interventions are technically feasible, immediate, visibly powerful and highly cost-effective. They demonstrate that programmes to tackle NTDs can be, and must be rapidly scaled up. These people could be reached if only more resources were available; either; cash donations, assistance with transport (vehicles or even bicycles), drugs such as praziquantel or albendazole, and microscopes and ultrasound machines for monitoring and evaluation.

SCI is a charitable institution and all donations received go straight to the country in need.

These infections have a significant economic impact on the family, community and country as a whole, and result in billions of dollars of lost productivity. NTDs help to maintain poverty.

Click here to read our Niger Hydrocoele Surgery Report

Click here to watch SCI Director Professor Alan Fenwick put The case for NTDs on Hardtalk