Nigeria: Noma roundtable event. Register now and spread the word!

On Tuesday, 20 June 2023, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in collaboration with the Senegalese Ministry of Health and Social Action, is hosting an online roundtable discussion. They will discuss Noma orofacial gangrene, mainly occurring in malnourished children debilitated by disease and living in the developing world. 

Through this event, both parties aim to continue their mobilisation efforts to ensure Noma is better known, identified, and treated. And for this, it must be included in the WHO's list of neglected tropical diseases (expected for 2023).

As members of the MSF family, you are undoubtedly familiar with Noma, a terrible disease whose survivors are scarred for life and from which people are still dying, particularly in Asia and Africa. Noma was diagnosed in at least 23 countries in the past decade (Lancet, 2022). 

Countries in West and Central Africa are affected, such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Guinea- Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal. Yet Noma is treatable and preventable. 

The documentary Restoring Dignity will be shown at the event's start if you still need to see it. 

PROGRAMME

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: FAIRE DU NOMA UNE PRIORITÉ / MAKING NOMA A PRIORITY. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

English follows INVITATION | Le ministère de la Santé et de l’Action sociale au Sénégal et Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) vous invitent à une table ronde de haut niveau le 20 juin 2023 à Dakar. → EN SAVOIR PLUS : Les survivants du noma souffrent de graves défigurations qui peuvent les empêcher de manger, de parler, de voir ou de respirer. Le noma est surtout répandu en Afrique et en Asie, mais il n'existe pas de cartographie de sa prévalence mondiale. Le noma est évitable et traitable mais des personnes en meurent encore. Le 20 juin 2023 à Dakar, nous poursuivons nos efforts de mobilisation et de sensibilisation pour mesurer les progrès réalisés mais aussi les défis qui restent à relever pour lutter contre le noma, tels que son inclusion dans la liste des maladies tropicales négligées de l'OMS, attendue d’ici la fin de l’année 2023. **** INVITATION | The Ministry of Health and Social Action in Senegal and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) invite you to a high-level roundtable on June 20, 2023 in Dakar. → FIND OUT MORE: Noma survivors suffer severe disfigurement that can prevent them from eating, speaking, seeing or breathing. Noma is mostly reported in Africa and Asia, but there is no mapping of its global prevalence. Noma is preventable and treatable, but people still die from it. On June 20, 2023 in Dakar, we will continue our mobilization and awareness-raising efforts to measure the progress made but also the challenges that remain in the fight against noma, such as its inclusion in the WHO's list of neglected tropical diseases, expected by the end of 2023. **** - Website : https://noma.msf.org/ - Documentary website : https://www.restoring-dignity.com/ - Hashtags: #ZeroNoma et #BeatNTDs

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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is a global network of principled medical and other professionals who specialise in medical humanitarian work, driven by our common humanity and guided by medical ethics. We strive to bring emergency medical care to people caught in conflicts, crises, and disasters in more than 70 countries worldwide.

In South Africa, the organisation is recognised as one of the pioneers of providing Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) in the public sector and started the first HIV programmes in South Africa in 1999. Until today, the focus of MSF’s interventions in the country has primarily been on developing new testing and treatment strategies for HIV/AIDS and TB in Eshowe (Kwa-Zulu Natal) and Khayelitsha (Western Cape).

In Tshwane, we run a migration project, and we offer medical and psychosocial care to migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, who struggle to access public health services under South Africa’s increasingly restrictive.

Previously we offered free, high-quality, confidential medical care to survivors of SGBV in Rustenburg.

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