"Reforming oral health policy to contain noma"

"In a landmark decision in December 2023, the World Health Organisation designated noma as a neglected tropical disease, shedding light on a condition that often lurks in the shadows of poverty-stricken communities across sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Noma is a severe rapidly progressing disease of the mouth and face mostly affecting children between the ages of two and six years suffering from malnutrition, infectious diseases, or living in extreme poverty with poor oral health or weakened immune systems like HIV and other diseases, which can lead to death due to complications such as sepsis. In 2012, the UN Human Rights Council acknowledged that neglecting noma is affected may amount to a violation of basic child rights."

Oluwaseyi Atoyebi. Reforming oral health policy to contain noma, 15th March 2024
https://punchng.com/reforming-oral-health-policy-to-contain-noma/ 

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Social impacts - life chances	(neglected) neglected tropical disease

Previously:

From - https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=noma

Ioana Cismas (York) - What's in a Frame? A Human Rights Approach to Neglected Tropical Diseases - https://www.york.ac.uk/cahr/events/2022/justice-in-global-health-workshop/

Concept Note in Support of the Inclusion of Noma (Cancrum Oris) on the World Health Organization List of Neglected Tropical Diseases (Commissioned by the Government of Namibia, 2016), 6 pp. (with Marie-Solène Adamou Moussa-Pham).

Srour, M. L., & Baratti-Mayer, D. (2020). Why is noma a neglected-neglected tropical disease?. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 14(8), e0008435. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008435