With assistance from the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Guyana’s Ministry of Health will soon develop an action plan with a goal to eliminate five of the 17 World Health Organisation (WHO)-listed neglected diseases by at least 2030, Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony has announced.
Listing Leprosy or Hansen’s disease as it is also called, and four parasitic diseases in Chagas, Leishmaniasis, Leprosy, Lymphatic Filariasis, and soil-transmitted Helminths (worms), Anthony said that the MoH recently completed a workshop, setting out different elimination targets for each of the diseases.
