Mycetoma at the WHO

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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.

This journey is an exemplary of hard and sustained work started in a small room at Hag EL Safi Health Centre, Khartoum North in the seventies of the last century and continued since then. It is an elegant example of sincere collaboration between numerous international bodies and institutes.

This joyful occasion is a stimulant to make a big comma and continue without a full stop to help and serve our needed patients, communities and countries.

Kindly visit:

Global conference calls for action to prevent suffering and disability from mycetoma

https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/15-02-2019-global-conference-calls-for-action-to-prevent-suffering-and-disability-from-mycetoma

Results of the 2017 global WHO survey on mycetoma

http://mycetoma.edu.sd/images/pdf/Results_of_the_2017_global_WHO_survey_on_mycetoma.pdf

The mycetoma webpage at the NTD/WHO at:

http://www.who.int/buruli/mycetoma/en/

Mycetoma, Fact sheet

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/mycetoma/en/

Fighting Neglected Tropical Diseases in Sudan

http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/global-partners-meeting/sudan/en/index1.html

Unprecedented progress against neglected tropical diseases, WHO reports