Webinar: Stories That Inspire – Testimonials and Solutions for Neglected Tropical Diseases

Webinar: Stories That Inspire – Testimonials and Solutions for Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Context

To prevent, control, and eliminate neglected tropical diseases, it is essential that health actions are integrated, sustainable, and designed with a people and community-centered focus, respecting diverse ways of life. 

On World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day 2025, under the theme: Involving Communities: A Hands-On Approach to Neglected Diseases, PAHO calls on governments, health workers, cooperation agencies, and community and civil organizations to unite and take action to eliminate these infections.

 

Meeting Recording

 

| Versão em Português | Version française

 

30 January 2025
10:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

 

Time Correspondence

  • 09:30 am - Central America and Mexico
  • 10:30 am - Colombia, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, U.S.A. (Washington DC)
  • 11:30 am - Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia
  • 12:30 pm - Brazil (Brasilia), Suriname, French Guiana

For other cities, check the local time in this link

 

 Agenda

10:30 - 10:40

Opening and Welcoming: Silvayn Aldighieri

Director of PAHO's Department of Prevention, Control and Elimination of Communicable Diseases (CDE)
Video: Jarbas Barbosa, PAHO Director.

10:40 – 11:00

The history of Joao Carvalho. First-person experience of a patient affected by Hansen's disease

President of the National Movement of Neglected Diseases of Brazil

11:00 – 11:10

Christopher Fernández Prada - Moderator: The trachoma initiative as a platform to bring comprehensive health care to remote communities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Professor at Montreal University and Member of the Steering Committee of the Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases 
Video: Experiences in the prevention, detection and control of trachoma in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela

11:10 - 11:30

Olga Aldama: Alliances and collaboration in the approach to NTDs. Challenges and opportunities

Specialist in Clinical, Surgical and Aesthetic Dermatology of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare of Paraguay 
Video: Joint actions in the prevention and care of skin diseases in Paraguay

11:30 – 11:50

Omar Flores: The importance of the One Health approach to the control and elimination of NTDs

Leishmaniasis Monitoring Professional of the National Program of Vector-Borne Diseases of the Ministry of Health and Sports of the Plurinational State of Bolivia
Video: Experience of Leishmaniasis in Bolivia

11:50 – 11:55

Christopher Fernández Prada - Moderator: The elimination of communicable diseases: an achievable challenge in the Americas 

Professor at Montreal University and Member of the Steering Committee of the Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases

11:55 - 12:00

Closure

Ana Luciañez Regional Advisor for Neglected Tropical Diseases at PAHO