Sharing best practice at the Neglected Tropical Diseases Conference, September 2022
The MENTOR Initiative, a sponsor of the Neglected Tropical Diseases NGO Network (NNN) conference, attended in person to share experiences and best practice with implementing partners and national NTD programmes. MENTOR is an active member of NNN and contributed to some of the cross-cutting groups that met. The theme of the conference: NTDs in health […]
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 […]
Published: Mapping Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis in Angola
New research on Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) control in Angola was recently published, enabling health officials to accurately plan and implement activities that significantly reduce the burden of Schistosomiasis (SCH) and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) in the country.
Training to improve malaria control in southern Angola
The MENTOR Initiative is supporting the training of 250 health workers (doctors, nurses and lab and pre-natal service technicians) and 120 Community Health Workers in malaria case management and surveillance, monitoring and evaluation in the southern Angolan provinces of Cunene and Cuando Cubango. The training, which is key to support the elimination of malaria in […]
Mapeamento de Helmintíases Transmitidas pelo Solo e Schistosomíase em Angola: uma visão geral
To read in English, click here A MENTOR Initiative em a colaboração com o Programa Nacional de Controlo das DTNs de Angola, com o Instituto Kirby da Universidade de New South Wales Sydney, com Projeto Especial Alargado para Eliminação de Doenças Tropicais Negligenciadas (ESPEN) e apoio do The End Fund está a desenvolver um estudo […]
Mapping Soil-Transmitted Helminths and Schistosomiasis in Angola: An Overview
Para ler em Português, clique aqui The MENTOR Initiative in collaboration with the Angolan National NTD Control Program, the Kirby Institute of the University of New South Wales Sydney, and the Expanded Special Project for Elimination Neglected Tropical Diseases (ESPEN), with support from The End Fund is working to understand the impact of a 5 […]
Indoor Residual Spraying in Southern Angola
The entire Angolan population is at risk for malaria. In 2018 there were 3.8 million malaria cases and 16,000 malaria deaths in 2017.[1] Additionally, malaria in Angola accounts for 35% of mortality in children and 40% of pre-natal mortality.[2] Under the supervision and coordination of the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), The MENTOR Initiative (MENTOR) […]