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South Sudan | Global Health Institute | University of Antwerp
Global Health Institute search menu search content South Sudan Nodding Syndrome: a trans-disciplinary approach to identify the cause and decrease the incidence of river epilepsy (NSETHIO) Abstract: Nodding syndrome (NS) is a neurological, incurable syndrome, currently affecting mainly children betwe…
Research projects on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - Global Health Institute | Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy | University of Antwerp
Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content Research projects on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - Global Health Institute Research projects on OAE and Nodding syndrome Reducing onchocerciasis-associated morbidity in children (2022-2025) Joseph Nelson Fodjo Siewe is curren…
Scientific publications on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - Global Health Institute | Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy | University of Antwerp
Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content Scientific publications on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - Global Health Institute OAE-related Academic Publications Explore the scholarly studies and articles on onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE). Bhwana D. Onchocercias…
Publications Robert Colebunders | Robert Colebunders | University of Antwerp
Robert Colebunders emeritus occasional assignment - emeritus with assignment Publications Robert Colebunders High prevalence of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy in villages in Maridi County, Republic of South Sudan : a community-based survey Source Seizure: European journal of epilepsy - ISSN 1059…
Research Robert Colebunders | Robert Colebunders | University of Antwerp
Robert Colebunders emeritus occasional assignment - emeritus with assignment Research Robert Colebunders Research team Global Health Institute (GHI) Expertise Training and providing advice in the field of infectious diseases, tropical medicine, travel medicine and HIV infection and assistance in est…
River epilepsy/Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) and Nodding syndrome - Global Health Institute | Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy | University of Antwerp
Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content River epilepsy/Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) and Nodding syndrome - Global Health Institute What is OAE and Nodding syndrome? Blackflies are the vectors that transmit the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. This worm causes onc…
Nodding disease | University Fund | University of Antwerp
University Fund search menu search content Nodding disease Help us prevent nodding disease Learn more about the nodding disease What is nodding disease? Nodding disease, or nodding syndrome, is a form of epilepsy that occurs in children between the ages of five and fifteen in South Sudan, Uganda, Ta…
In the press | Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy | University of Antwerp
Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content In the press OAE-related news in the press Our research on Nodding syndrome has been covered extensively in the media: Nodding syndrome: pathology and prevention – an interview with Robert Colebunders (Infectious Diseases Hub 16/02/2017…
Who are we | Exiled and separated | University of Antwerp
Exiled and separated search menu search content Who are we Milena Belloni is the key investigator in this project. She is an ethnographer specialized in migration and refugee studies. Milena has conducted extensive fieldwork in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Italy and Holland. Her research mainly concern…
Scientific research on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - Global Health Institute | Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy | University of Antwerp
Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content Scientific research on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - Global Health Institute Scientific research on OAE and Nodding syndrome There is a high prevalence and incidence of epilepsy in many onchocerciasis endemic regions where on…
Publications Samuel Grinsell | Samuel Grinsell | University of Antwerp
Samuel Grinsell unpaid staff Publications Samuel Grinsell Imperial culture and the Sudan Source European review of history - ISSN 1350-7486-29:1 (2022) p. 114-115 Author(s) Samuel Grinsell Citation link Urbanism, environment and the buildings of the Anglo-Egyptian Nile valley, 1880s-1920s Source ABE…
Scientific presentations on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - GHI | Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy | University of Antwerp
Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content Scientific presentations on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - GHI Global Insights on OAE: Keynote Presentations Dive into a curated collection of slides and insights from OAE-related presentations delivered at international confe…
DR Congo | Global Health Institute | University of Antwerp
Global Health Institute search menu search content DR Congo Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in school children: from research into policy Abstract Malaria remains a major public health threat despite considerable progress on control in the past decade. We, and others, demonstrated that …
About Robert Colebunders | Robert Colebunders | University of Antwerp
Robert Colebunders emeritus occasional assignment - emeritus with assignment About Robert Colebunders NSETHIO, project funded by ERC, Horizon 2020 Nodding Syndrome: a trans-disciplinary approach to identify the cause and decrease the incidence of river epilepsy Nodding syndrome (NS) is a neurologica…
About Robert Colebunders | Robert Colebunders | University of Antwerp
Robert Colebunders emeritus occasional assignment - emeritus with assignment About Robert Colebunders Robert Colebunders Contact Show email address Tel. +3232651804 Doornstraat 331 2610 Wilrijk, BEL Robert (Bob) Colebunders was in the past mainly involved in research on HIV, tuberculosis and hemorrh…
About Milena Belloni | Milena Belloni | University of Antwerp
Milena Belloni TT. asst. research professor About Milena Belloni Milena Belloni Contact Stadscampus Show email address Tel. +3232651067 Sint-Jacobstraat 2 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Milena Belloni is an ethnographer specialized in migration and refugee studies. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Erit…
Programme 2019 | USOS | University of Antwerp
USOS search menu search content Programme 2019 The role of the private sector in sustainable development The recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a multi-dimensional framework to achieve economic growth, social inclusion and…
Political Chronicles 2022 | Great Lakes of Africa Centre | University of Antwerp
Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content Political Chronicles 2022 of the African Great Lakes Region Continuing the tradition of L’Afrique des grands lacs: Annuaire, this companion volume to Conjonctures de l’Afrique centrale (Paris, L’Harmattan), offers a survey of political de…
Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) research team - Global Health Institute | Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy | University of Antwerp
Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) research team - Global Health Institute Professor Colebunders & his team as of 2023 Robert Colebunders, MD, PhD is an emeritus professor of tropical diseases at the Institute of Tropical Medicine a…
Publications Amber Hadermann | Amber Hadermann | University of Antwerp
Amber Hadermann doctoral scholarship holder Publications Amber Hadermann Onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy and biomarkers Source PLoS neglected tropical diseases - ISSN 1935-2735-18:5 (2024) p. 1-4 Author(s) Robert Colebunders, Amber Hadermann, Alfred K. Njamnshi, Bruno P. Mmbando, Olivia Kamoen, J…
Menatalla Ahmed | Henry van de Velde | University of Antwerp
Henry van de Velde search menu search content Menatalla Ahmed To Be Seen: Nubian Displacement and en-gendered Resistance in 'Public' Space Promotors: Els De Vos, Johan De Walsche This research investigates how gender relations become manifest in the design, uses and representations of the built envi…
Publications Luis-Jorge Teles de Meneses do Amaral | Luis-Jorge Teles de Meneses do Amaral | University of Antwerp
Luis-Jorge Teles de Meneses do Amaral doctoral scholarship holder Publications Luis-Jorge Teles de Meneses do Amaral Impact of annual community-directed treatment with ivermectin on the incidence of epilepsy in Mvolo, a two-year prospective study Source PLoS neglected tropical diseases - ISSN 1935-2…
Current Affairs debate | Law and Development | University of Antwerp
Law and Development search menu search content Current Affairs debate Current Affairs Debate The Rise and Fall of Referendums in Europe (and Beyond): The Law and Politics of Secession and Self-determination On the 16th of November 2017 the Law and Development research Group, under the impulse of pro…
Intro | Language courses | University of Antwerp
Language courses search menu search content Intro Hakuna Matata There are no troubles What is Swahili? Swahili belongs to the family of Bantu languages, one of the largest language families on the African continent. A typical feature of these languages is the way all kinds of information is ‘glued…
UAntwerp scientists achieve breakthrough in river epilepsy research | Global Health Institute | University of Antwerp
Global Health Institute search menu search content UAntwerp scientists achieve breakthrough in river epilepsy research 'Nodding syndrome is only the tip of the iceberg' At an international workshop, UAntwerp and the World Health Organisation shared some groundbreaking insights into river epilepsy. T…