Frédéric Ojardias
@fojardias.bsky.social
Communications at the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi).
Former RFI, La Croix, Mediapart reporter in Seoul. Former aid worker in North Korea. fojardias@dndi.org
Former RFI, La Croix, Mediapart reporter in Seoul. Former aid worker in North Korea. fojardias@dndi.org
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Our Policy Advocacy Director @childsmichelle.bsky.social with an extremely timely opinion piece in the @financialtimes.com! How to ensure that the exodus from infectious disease research does not affect millions around the world in need of innovation.
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Neglecting infectious diseases is a market failure
Major companies are reducing research on new medicines for illnesses that affect billions of people
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November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Our Policy Advocacy Director @childsmichelle.bsky.social with an extremely timely opinion piece in the @financialtimes.com! How to ensure that the exodus from infectious disease research does not affect millions around the world in need of innovation.
JUST RELEASED: Open science in a closed world 🌍📘Our new policy report shows how open, collaborative science and pro-access IP approaches can accelerate medical innovation & equitable access to health tools for all. #MakeScienceOpen youtube.com/shorts/UmBAr...
Open Science in a Closed World
YouTube video by Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)
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November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Updated live streaming link: us06web.zoom.us/j/86313952219
Save the date!
#Dengue is a growing global & European threat. This session will unite partners across sectors to explore how collaboration can accelerate the development and delivery of much-needed dengue treatments.
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#OSHLYON2025 #OneHealth @afd-france.bsky.social
#Dengue is a growing global & European threat. This session will unite partners across sectors to explore how collaboration can accelerate the development and delivery of much-needed dengue treatments.
💻 us06web.zoom.us/j/87141241659
#OSHLYON2025 #OneHealth @afd-france.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Updated live streaming link: us06web.zoom.us/j/86313952219
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🎬 We're proud to share our new film 'The Boy Who Beat The Sandfly'. It tells Henry’s story of courage & recovery, showing the impact visceral leishmaniasis can have on children & their communities. It’s also a call for better, simpler treatments for this disease. youtu.be/eyiJ-VeVk-w
The Boy Who Beat The Sandfly
YouTube video by Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🎬 We're proud to share our new film 'The Boy Who Beat The Sandfly'. It tells Henry’s story of courage & recovery, showing the impact visceral leishmaniasis can have on children & their communities. It’s also a call for better, simpler treatments for this disease. youtu.be/eyiJ-VeVk-w
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Worst dengue outbreak in Sudan’s history. Civil war destroyed health infrastructure. Flooding and breakdown of sewage systems create breeding grounds for mosquitoes carrying dengue & malaria. Hospitals are overwhelmed. 🧵1/2
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Worst dengue outbreak in Sudan’s history. Civil war destroyed health infrastructure. Flooding and breakdown of sewage systems create breeding grounds for mosquitoes carrying dengue & malaria. Hospitals are overwhelmed. 🧵1/2
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Warm congratulations to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi on being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine 👏 (1/4) www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
www.nobelprize.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Warm congratulations to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi on being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine 👏 (1/4) www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
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Patients are being left to suffer as a painkiller crisis hits Gaza’s hospitals
More than 167,000 people have been reported injured in Gaza since 7 October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry
Read the full story: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
More than 167,000 people have been reported injured in Gaza since 7 October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry
Read the full story: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
September 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Patients are being left to suffer as a painkiller crisis hits Gaza’s hospitals
More than 167,000 people have been reported injured in Gaza since 7 October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry
Read the full story: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
More than 167,000 people have been reported injured in Gaza since 7 October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry
Read the full story: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
'At a time when U.S. scientists feel besieged, this year’s Ig Nobels carry a special weight.'
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The Ig Nobels are science’s most lighthearted event. This year is ‘not typical’
Amid Trump research cuts, visa restrictions, and international conflicts, some winners sit out the celebration of whimsical science
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
'At a time when U.S. scientists feel besieged, this year’s Ig Nobels carry a special weight.'
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Great news! 🎉
Following an independent expert review, we have formally nominated the broad-spectrum pan-coronavirus antiviral ASAP-0017445 as a pre-clinical drug candidate.
🔗Read the press release here: dndi.org/press-releas...
Following an independent expert review, we have formally nominated the broad-spectrum pan-coronavirus antiviral ASAP-0017445 as a pre-clinical drug candidate.
🔗Read the press release here: dndi.org/press-releas...
September 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Great news! 🎉
Following an independent expert review, we have formally nominated the broad-spectrum pan-coronavirus antiviral ASAP-0017445 as a pre-clinical drug candidate.
🔗Read the press release here: dndi.org/press-releas...
Following an independent expert review, we have formally nominated the broad-spectrum pan-coronavirus antiviral ASAP-0017445 as a pre-clinical drug candidate.
🔗Read the press release here: dndi.org/press-releas...
Reposted by Frédéric Ojardias
China deploys ‘cannibal’ mosquitoes and killer fish to fight chikungunya www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
China deploys ‘cannibal’ mosquitoes and killer fish to fight chikungunya
More than 7,000 cases of the debilitating mosquito-borne disease have been reported in an unprecedented outbreak
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
China deploys ‘cannibal’ mosquitoes and killer fish to fight chikungunya www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
'Donald Trump's administration cancelled a major contract to supply emergency kits for rape survivors in Congo as violence surged in the east this year, leaving thousands without access to life-saving medication.'
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: USAID cancelled rape survivor kits for Congo as conflict erupted
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration cancelled a major contract to supply emergency kits for rape survivors in Congo as violence surged in the east this year, leaving thousands without access to life-saving medication, the United Nations and aid groups said.
www.reuters.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
'Donald Trump's administration cancelled a major contract to supply emergency kits for rape survivors in Congo as violence surged in the east this year, leaving thousands without access to life-saving medication.'
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
“Le désir de rester en vie [ne doit plus être] un terrain de spéculation financière.”
Excellent livre qui résume très bien les enjeux éco autour du médicament. La dérive des prix flingue notre sécu. Le livre donne des pistes concrètes pour y remédier.
Par Gaëlle Krikorian & @mdmfrance.bsky.social
Excellent livre qui résume très bien les enjeux éco autour du médicament. La dérive des prix flingue notre sécu. Le livre donne des pistes concrètes pour y remédier.
Par Gaëlle Krikorian & @mdmfrance.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“Le désir de rester en vie [ne doit plus être] un terrain de spéculation financière.”
Excellent livre qui résume très bien les enjeux éco autour du médicament. La dérive des prix flingue notre sécu. Le livre donne des pistes concrètes pour y remédier.
Par Gaëlle Krikorian & @mdmfrance.bsky.social
Excellent livre qui résume très bien les enjeux éco autour du médicament. La dérive des prix flingue notre sécu. Le livre donne des pistes concrètes pour y remédier.
Par Gaëlle Krikorian & @mdmfrance.bsky.social
'In the arid plains of Turkana, Kenya, a silent and devastating disease called mycetoma is quietly destroying lives.'
Heart-wrenching testimonies from patients living with the disease. By the Kenyan Historian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZFA...
Heart-wrenching testimonies from patients living with the disease. By the Kenyan Historian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZFA...
"Uncovering Turkana's Silent Plague: The Gruesome Disease Crippling a Region"
YouTube video by The Kenyan Historian
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June 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
'In the arid plains of Turkana, Kenya, a silent and devastating disease called mycetoma is quietly destroying lives.'
Heart-wrenching testimonies from patients living with the disease. By the Kenyan Historian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZFA...
Heart-wrenching testimonies from patients living with the disease. By the Kenyan Historian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZFA...
“So, if pharmaceutical companies aren’t as innovative as we’ve been led to believe, and if the innovation they do provide comes at such a high cost, is there another way?”
Yes. 👇
cosmosmagazine.com/health/medic...
Yes. 👇
cosmosmagazine.com/health/medic...
Is there a better way to develop new drugs?
Pharmaceutical giants claim that research and development costs justify the sky-high prices of drugs. But this isn’t the whole truth. In December 2023, Clare
cosmosmagazine.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“So, if pharmaceutical companies aren’t as innovative as we’ve been led to believe, and if the innovation they do provide comes at such a high cost, is there another way?”
Yes. 👇
cosmosmagazine.com/health/medic...
Yes. 👇
cosmosmagazine.com/health/medic...
Nice partnership in Korea to develop a medicine for river blindness - the second leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide. Story in Korean here: n.news.naver.com/article/030/...
June 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Nice partnership in Korea to develop a medicine for river blindness - the second leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide. Story in Korean here: n.news.naver.com/article/030/...
Le mycétome est une maladie épouvantable. L'amputation est trop souvent la seule solution pour sauver les patients.
La maladie est très négligée (DNDi a mené le premier essai clinique moderne pour tester un nouveau traitement).
Reportage @afp.com au Kenya information.tv5monde.com/afrique/vide...
La maladie est très négligée (DNDi a mené le premier essai clinique moderne pour tester un nouveau traitement).
Reportage @afp.com au Kenya information.tv5monde.com/afrique/vide...
Kenya : le mycétome, une maladie endémique pourtant encore négligée
Le mycétome est une infection locale que l'on attrape notamment en marchant pieds nus sur des épines. Faute de diagnostic précoce ou de soins, l'amputation est souvent la seule option.
information.tv5monde.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Le mycétome est une maladie épouvantable. L'amputation est trop souvent la seule solution pour sauver les patients.
La maladie est très négligée (DNDi a mené le premier essai clinique moderne pour tester un nouveau traitement).
Reportage @afp.com au Kenya information.tv5monde.com/afrique/vide...
La maladie est très négligée (DNDi a mené le premier essai clinique moderne pour tester un nouveau traitement).
Reportage @afp.com au Kenya information.tv5monde.com/afrique/vide...
Il parcourt la brousse à moto pour trouver des patients atteints de la leishmaniose viscérale en Ouganda, et les amener à l'hôpital. En 20 ans de travail, Andrew a sauvé des milliers de vies.
end.org/east-africa-...
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One man’s work saved thousands of lives in Uganda and now a renewed strategy aims to eliminate a deadly parasite - The END Fund
Learn how one man is helping to find and treat cases of visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa, leading to new strategies for elimination.
end.org
June 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Il parcourt la brousse à moto pour trouver des patients atteints de la leishmaniose viscérale en Ouganda, et les amener à l'hôpital. En 20 ans de travail, Andrew a sauvé des milliers de vies.
end.org/east-africa-...
end.org/east-africa-...
Neglected tropical diseases now face even more neglect. By @jpatadams.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
'Neglected tropical diseases' now face even more neglect
U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected diseases like river blindness, schistosomiasis and trachoma.
www.npr.org
June 6, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Neglected tropical diseases now face even more neglect. By @jpatadams.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Chad, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti & South Sudan signed a political accord to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis -one of deadliest parasitic killers after malaria.
Including by supporting research.
Encouraging news from Le Monde @droucaute.bsky.social @dndi.org
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Including by supporting research.
Encouraging news from Le Monde @droucaute.bsky.social @dndi.org
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Contre la leishmaniose viscérale, une maladie tropicale négligée, plusieurs pays africains s’unissent
Transmise par la piqûre de petits moucherons, cette pathologie cause la mort de 20 000 à 30 000 personnes par an, surtout en Afrique de l’Est.
www.lemonde.fr
May 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Chad, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti & South Sudan signed a political accord to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis -one of deadliest parasitic killers after malaria.
Including by supporting research.
Encouraging news from Le Monde @droucaute.bsky.social @dndi.org
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Including by supporting research.
Encouraging news from Le Monde @droucaute.bsky.social @dndi.org
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
« La moitié des résultats des recherches menées en France ne font pas l’objet d’une publication (…) un problème de santé publique, en créant des lacunes potentiellement dangereuses dans les bases de données médicales. »
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
Les chercheurs français ne respectent pas les obligations en matière de publication de résultats des essais cliniques
Le Baromètre de la science ouverte révèle que la moitié des résultats des recherches menées en France ne font pas l’objet d’une publication. Outre qu’il fait une entorse à la loi, ce défaut d’accessib...
www.lemonde.fr
May 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
« La moitié des résultats des recherches menées en France ne font pas l’objet d’une publication (…) un problème de santé publique, en créant des lacunes potentiellement dangereuses dans les bases de données médicales. »
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
"Une aiguille dans une botte de foin : L’élimination de la maladie du sommeil en Guinée, vue de l’intérieur."
Notre reportage en Guinée, format immersif, est disponible en français:
stories.dndi.org/boletmounaFR...
Notre reportage en Guinée, format immersif, est disponible en français:
stories.dndi.org/boletmounaFR...
Bölët Mouna
Inside Guinea's quest to eliminate sleeping sickness
stories.dndi.org
May 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
"Une aiguille dans une botte de foin : L’élimination de la maladie du sommeil en Guinée, vue de l’intérieur."
Notre reportage en Guinée, format immersif, est disponible en français:
stories.dndi.org/boletmounaFR...
Notre reportage en Guinée, format immersif, est disponible en français:
stories.dndi.org/boletmounaFR...
Devastating story from Sudan. 40 years of samples and data lost when the Mycetoma Research Center was destroyed during the war.
Including “very rare types of fungi and bacteria, some of them reported on for the first time.“
By @sneweyy.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Including “very rare types of fungi and bacteria, some of them reported on for the first time.“
By @sneweyy.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
World’s only research centre for flesh-eating infection ransacked in Sudan
Mycetoma Research Centre becomes yet another victim of the country’s civil war, in a ‘major blow’ for efforts to tackle the disease
www.telegraph.co.uk
April 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Devastating story from Sudan. 40 years of samples and data lost when the Mycetoma Research Center was destroyed during the war.
Including “very rare types of fungi and bacteria, some of them reported on for the first time.“
By @sneweyy.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Including “very rare types of fungi and bacteria, some of them reported on for the first time.“
By @sneweyy.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
In English.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Sudan war destroys world's only research centre on skin disease mycetoma: director
The world's only research centre on mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease common among farmers, has been destroyed in Sudan's two-year war, its director and another expert say.
www.france24.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In English.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
“Le seul centre au monde de recherche sur le mycétome, une maladie tropicale infectieuse touchant particulièrement les populations défavorisée, a été détruit à Khartoum par la guerre au Soudan.”
C’est l’une des maladies les plus négligées. Terrible nouvelle.
www.lorientlejour.com/article/1457...
C’est l’une des maladies les plus négligées. Terrible nouvelle.
www.lorientlejour.com/article/1457...
Soudan : un centre de recherche médicale unique au monde détruit, selon son fondateur
Le seul centre au monde de recherche sur le mycétome, une maladie tropicale infectieuse touchant particulièrement les populations défavorisée, a été détruit à Khartoum par la guerre au...
www.lorientlejour.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Le seul centre au monde de recherche sur le mycétome, une maladie tropicale infectieuse touchant particulièrement les populations défavorisée, a été détruit à Khartoum par la guerre au Soudan.”
C’est l’une des maladies les plus négligées. Terrible nouvelle.
www.lorientlejour.com/article/1457...
C’est l’une des maladies les plus négligées. Terrible nouvelle.
www.lorientlejour.com/article/1457...
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Prepare yourself for the unfamiliar sensation of not-entirely-terrible news. After years of tense talks, the 191 member states of the World Health Organization have agreed on language for a pandemic treaty and it contains some genuine good compromises on equity. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...
WHO Member Countries Agree to Pandemic Treaty (Gift Article)
The World Health Organization finally reached a compromise on a pandemic treaty after three years of talks. The United States withdrew from negotiations after President Trump took office.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Prepare yourself for the unfamiliar sensation of not-entirely-terrible news. After years of tense talks, the 191 member states of the World Health Organization have agreed on language for a pandemic treaty and it contains some genuine good compromises on equity. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...