GLIDE: Yemeni Doctor Wins Global Disease Elimination Award to Help Keep the Country Free of Lymphatic Filariasis
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Dr Abdul Samid Al-Kubati, a doctor who is leading Yemens efforts to keep the country rid of lymphatic filariasis (LF) has won a Falcon Award for Disease Elimination.
Key Points:
- Dr Abdul Samid Al-Kubati, a doctor who is leading Yemens efforts to keep the country rid of lymphatic filariasis (LF) has won a Falcon Award for Disease Elimination.
- The five winners were announced yesterday by the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) during a Universal Health Coverage Day event at EXPO 2020 Dubai.
- Dr Al-Kubati beat 220 applicants across 44 countries to become the first Yemeni winner of the Falcon Awards.
- The Awards invited submissions from organisations in disease-endemic countries whose proposals address cross-border, cross-disease, cross-programme, or cross-sector approaches to disease elimination.