Primary Healthcare in the community
The MENTOR Initiative provides life-saving primary healthcare for displaced, vulnerable and hard to reach communities through the training and support of Community Health Workers (CHWs). In the past year we have trained and provided support to over 3,000 community health workers across our programmes in Central African Republic, Mozambique, Angola, Syria and Venezuela. Community health […]
Protecting millions of people in Syria from leishmaniasis
The MENTOR Initiative’s seasonal Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) campaign to protect people from leishmaniasis in Syria was completed last month (May 2022). Teams sprayed 372,000 households in North-West and North-East Syria, to protect over 2 million people from this Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) which is transmitted by sandflies.Over 1 million people protected in this campaign […]
Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Syria: A review of available data during the war years: 2011–2018
Review
Syria
Country Programme The Syrian Civil War that began in 2011 has resulted in one of the most complex humanitarian crises of the 21st century. In conflict zones like Syria, healthcare infrastructure is severely disrupted and living conditions are often unsanitary. These conditions create the perfect environment for the proliferation of leishmaniasis, a vector-borne disease that […]
Leishmaniasis in Northern Syria during Civil War
Research article