NTDs around the world - Pakistan

NTDs around the world - Spotlight on Pakistan

The next session of the “NTDs Around the World” series highlights neglected tropical diseases in Pakistan and will discuss the challenges in leprosy control and elimination efforts in a low-endemic region, the barriers to diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a dermatology department of a high-burden country, and lessons from the successful roadmap to eliminate trachoma in Pakistan.

Topics:

Challenges in leprosy control and elimination efforts in a low-endemic region (Christine Schmotzer, MD, Focal Person for Leprosy in Pakistan for the World Health Organisation)

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in a dermatology department of a high-burden country (Bushra Nadeem, Consultant Dermatologist, Aid to Leprosy Patients (ALP)/ Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital (RLH), Pakistan)

Lessons from the successful roadmap to eliminate trachoma in Pakistan (Arif Hussain, MBBS, College of Ophthalmology and Allied Vision Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan)

Razia Fatima, PhD, Technical Consultant TB, UNOPS, Geneva, Switzerland and, Director, Health Solutions International, Islamabad, Pakistan

(CEST), 6:30 PM Eastern African Time (EAT), 8:30 PM Pakistan Standard Time (PKT)

This webinar is supported by: Working Group NTD of the young German Society Tropical medicine, Travel Medicine and Global Health 

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