2024-01-30 09:00:03
Buruli ulcer, bilharzia, lymphatic filariasis, sleeping sickness or leprosy… These diseases are among the 21 Neglected Tropical Diseases listed by the WHO, and which affect more than a billion people. These diseases are prevalent in areas where access to quality health services, drinking water and sanitation is difficult.
What are the characteristics of these diseases? How to prevent them? Is it possible to eradicate them? And where is the research? Is there progress in the treatment of some of these pathologies?
Dr Wilfried Mutombo Kalonjihead of clinical operations in the DRC for DNDa drug development NGO for neglected tropical diseases Dr Philippe Solano, director of research atResearch Institute for Development (IRD) and director of the “INTERTRYP” Research Unit in Montpellier which combines IRD and Cirad Laurent Marsollier, Director of Research atInserm.
► At the end of the broadcast, Thierry Peyrarddirector of the National Reference Department in immuno-hematology and rare blood at theFrench Blood Establishment (EFS) tells us regarding the third edition of rare blood group awareness week.
Musical programming:
► Davido – Feel it
► Zaho de Sagazan – The symphony of lightning.
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