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Mycetoma at the Global Health NOW, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Mycetoma at the Global Health NOWOut of 170 nominations of diseases and issues that significantly impacted the global health but receive little to no attention from the mainstream media, which was submitted to Global Health NOW, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, one stood out: mycetoma. That was submitted by Annie Liang and SimranDhunna,

medical students at the University of Toronto.

https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2016-09/untold-global-health-story-2015-mycetoma

Freelance science journalist Miss Amy Maxmen was commissioned by Global Health NOW, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to visit the Sudan and to write three stories on mycetoma, she visited the MRC, the Gazeria area, a mycetoma endemic area and wrote 5 stories on mycetoma. She followed the mycetoma resolution till it was adaptation by the WHA in May 2016, in Genève and wrote on that event.

  • Attention finally for a Neglected Disease,

https://live-globalhealthnow.pantheonsite.io/2016-05/attention-finally-neglected-disease

  • Who Will Champion Mycetoma?

https://live-globalhealthnow.pantheonsite.io/2016-05/who-will-champion-mycetoma

  • One More Chance for a Neglected Disease

https://live-globalhealthnow.pantheonsite.io/2016-05/one-more-chance-neglected-disease

  • An Obscure Disease Hits WHO Where It Counts

https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2016-05/obscure-disease-hits-who-where-it-counts

  • End Mycetoma’s Catch-22

https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2016-01/end-mycetomas-catch-22