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 […]
Targeting Neglected Tropical Diseases in South Sudan
The MENTOR Initiative is working closely with its partners to control and subsequently eliminate onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis in South Sudan, which are among the five endemic Neglected Tropical Diseases that respond to Preventive Chemotherapy (PC-NTDs). MENTOR and the South Sudan National NTD Programme, with funding from The END Fund, is targeting onchocerciasis – commonly […]
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.
“Disease control in countries with highest burden more important than ever” says MENTOR CEO
Today (23 June 2022) at the Kigali Summit on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, we will hear about the progress been made to overcome these diseases that cause death and suffering to a large proportion of the world’s population. But we still need to ramp up the critical work to tackle malaria and NTDs in […]
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 […]
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 […]
World Water Day 2021
The MENTOR Initiative Support to Increase Access to Safe Drinkable Water in Angola According to the World Bank, only 55.8% of the population in Angola were using at least basic drinking water services[1]. The lack of access to water affects mostly rural populations and hampers access to water of school children in Angola. According to […]