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In the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, neglected tropical diseases represent a major public health problem. Some diseases, such as leishmaniasis, are endemic in most countries. Other diseases, such as leprosy, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis (bilharzia) and soil-transmitted helminthiases, affect only some countries of the Region or are of low prevalence. Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) and human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) are only endemic in South Sudan

 

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Visit to the WHO Collaborating Centre on Case Management for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
  • 07 August 2022

Visit to the WHO Collaborating Centre on Case Management for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

WHO designates new collaborating centre for case management of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tunisia
  • 29 November 2020

WHO designates new collaborating centre for case management of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tunisia

Treating over one billion people for the fourth successive year
  • 03 November 2019

Treating over one billion people for the fourth successive year

Yemen poised to eliminate two debilitating neglected tropical diseases in 2015
  • 18 February 2015

Yemen poised to eliminate two debilitating neglected tropical diseases in 2015

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