Stakeholders in the health sector met on Tuesday for a one-day workshop at the Herdmanston Lodge where attention was focused on the national action plan for Neglected Infectious (Tropical) Diseases (NIDs).
The workshop hosted by the Ministry of Public Healths Vector Control Unit was convened under the theme. Strike a decisive blow against five neglected infectious diseases and improve thousands of Guyanese lives.
According to the Director of Public Information, the meetings agenda was crafted to build and foster relationships with various stakeholders, while raising awareness related to the elimination of the five NIDs – Lymphatic filariasis or Filaria, leprosy, Leishmaniasis, Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis and American Trypanosomiasis commonly known as Chagas disease.