• Mycetoma Research Center
    Mycetoma Research Center

    The Mycetoma Research Centre (MRC), University of Khartoum

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  • MRC Staff
    MRC Staff

    The staff members are of medical, health and science backgrounds who are interested in all facets related to mycetoma.

    MRC Staff:

    The staff members are of medical, health and science backgrounds who are interested in all facets related to mycetoma. They have rich track records in patients’ management, teaching, research and community development. The centre staff has continually explored new patients’ management approaches through clinical and basic research.

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  • A simple thorn prick
    A simple thorn prick

    Mycetoma : The faces of neglect

    How can a simple thorn prick be so devastating?

     

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  • Community Development
    Community Development
  • Mycetoma Management: A New Unique Holistic Approach
    Mycetoma Management: A New Unique Holistic Approach

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Sunday 24 October 2018 had visited the Mycetoma Research Centre in Khartoum (Sudan), WHO Collaborating Centre on Mycetoma where he pledged to support initiatives that

The Mycetoma Research Centre which is a major hub of mycetoma research and training and will be hosting The Sixth International Conference on Mycetoma in the period 15-17 February 2019. It will be preceded by a training workshop on mycetoma.

The conference aims at providing an excellent forum for clinicians, scientists, social scientists, researchers, medical and health providers and students to deliberate critical issues in mycetoma, the challenges, opportunities, threats, budding problems in mycetoma, and to explore

 

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative Is the Anti Martin Shkreli:

For the Global Health Untold Stories Contest of 2015, we and colleagues at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health received 170 nominations of diseases and issues that impact global health but receive little or no attention from the mainstream media.

After careful consideration, we selected a disease that few people have ever heard of. An affliction of the very poor in 23 equatorial countries, the flesh-eating, bone-destroying disease mycetoma has spread misery for centuries. Yet its prevalence and etiology are largely unknown even today.

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Mycetoma had landed safely at the Neglected Tropical Diseases of the WHO, Geneva after a long and challenging journey.

The journal was planned, orchestrated and executed by devoted great and giants figures from The Sudan, The Netherland, United Kingdom, Mexico and Switzerland as well as prestigious organisations to mention but a few WHO-Sudan, DNDi,

Erasmus Medical Centre, University of Newcastle, Monterrey University, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Swiss Embassy -Sudan and last and not least The Mycetoma Research Centre, Khartoum and University of Khartoum.

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