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Good morning everyone! I would like to ask you to raise your hand if you know, or have heard anything, about Anesvad. Please, raise your hand if Anesvad sounds familiar to you. Well... This presentation makes sense. Thank you. Anesvad is an organization based in Bilbao, in the Basque Country, Spain, and our mission is to support the right to health. For some years now, our work focus on skin-Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa. In line with the WHO, we support an integrated approach to skin Neglected Tropical Diseases, considering them within a wider framework that takes into account the social determinants of health. Our work is carried out with governments, through a results-based financing strategy, with civil society through call for projects, with the private sector through philanthropy approach and, of course, through research. And we do not work alone; alliances are essential for coordination and for creating synergies, and are an integral part of our identity. We are part of the GPZL, the LRI, the BULabNet and other networks, and we work in partnership with the WHO, the national programs, other foundations and NGOs, universities and research centers. In the Research Unit of Anesvad we not only do research, we support all activities related to generation and transfer of knowledge, including training, socialization of knowledge and advocacy. But as far as research is concerned, we support all types of skin-NTDs related research, from clinical trials to participatory action research, on different topics, from those involving diagnosis or treatment, to those related to, for instance, stigma. In the following slides, you can see, as an example, some research that Anesvad supports. This is just to illustrate that Anesvad is clearly committed to knowledge generation, and we hope that together we can move it forward to reduce incidence, prevalence, morbidity, disability and mortality caused by neglected tropical diseases. This is the end of my presentation and I will pass the floor to my colleague, happy to know that the next time someone asks you to raise your hand if you know Anesvad, there will be hundreds of raised hands. Thank you for your attention.