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
On Thursday, 21 July 2022, the WHO Representative to Tunisia, Dr Ibrahim El-Ziq, visited the Visit to the WHO Collaborating Centre on Case Management for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, located in the...
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29 November 2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the Dermatology Department of La Rabta Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Al Manar 2, Tunis, Tunisia, as a...
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29 October 2019 | Geneva – Recent data published by the World Health Organization (WHO)1 confirm that in 2018, more than one billion people were again treated for at least...
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This manual is designed to teach personnel of national programmes to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF), including regional and district health personnel, the essential elements of monitoring and evaluating national programmes...
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Data on the leishmaniasis status for countries of the Eastern Mediterranean for the last 15 years are now also available as interactive maps and graphs in the WHO Regional Health Observatory. The data...
» Read the full story16 March 2017 – The 15th meeting of the Regional Programme Review Group on Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination and other Preventive Chemotherapy Programmes was convened by the WHO Regional Office for the...
» Read the full storyThe 14th meeting of the Regional Programme Review Group on Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination and other Preventive Chemotherapy Programmes was organized by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean at...
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Manual for case management of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region [pdf 195Mb]
Framework for action on cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Eastern Mediterranean Region 2014–2018 [pdf 364kb]