{"id":9247,"date":"2020-12-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsong.org\/proyectos\/stronghealth-project-making-the-invisible-visible-in-the-fight-against-strongyloidiasis\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:12:22","slug":"stronghealth-project-making-the-invisible-visible-in-the-fight-against-strongyloidiasis","status":"publish","type":"proyectos","link":"https:\/\/adsong.org\/en\/projects\/stronghealth-project-making-the-invisible-visible-in-the-fight-against-strongyloidiasis\/","title":{"rendered":"StrongHealth Project: making the invisible visible in the fight against strongyloidiasis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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StrongHealth Project: making the invisible visible in the fight against strongyloidiasis<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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ABOUT THE PROJECT<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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An invisible disease<\/h3>\n

Strongyloidiasis is a parasitic disease that affects between 300 and 600 million people around the world. Yet it barely features on the health agenda.<\/p>\n

Unlike more visible parasitic infections, strongyloidiasis often goes undiagnosed. In many cases, infected people have no clear symptoms, there is no single gold-standard diagnostic test, and public health systems in countries like Ethiopia hardly include it in their surveillance programs.<\/p>\n

When the infection progresses (especially in people with weakened immune systems), it can lead to serious, potentially fatal complications, even though treatment is fairly simple: a single dose of ivermectin is enough to clear it.<\/p>\n

The problem is that, without diagnosis, clinical knowledge or a place in public policy, millions of people live with the infection without knowing it. They are invisible people with an invisible disease.<\/p>\n

Scientific evidence for public policy<\/h3>\n

The StrongHealth Project is run by the Mundo Sano Foundation<\/strong>, which funds it and leads it technically, under an agreement with Ethiopia\u2019s Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH)<\/strong>. Since December 2020, we at Fundaci\u00f3n ADS have supported it in Ethiopia: administrative and financial management, oversight of implementation, logistics and relations with the authorities. The goal is to build the scientific and operational evidence needed to turn strongyloidiasis from a neglected disease into a public health priority built into national policy.<\/p>\n

To do this, the project works along five lines:<\/p>\n