World Health Day 2023
MENTOR works in countries with the highest disease burden and where millions of people are at risk of sickness and death. In these complex humanitarian crises, innovative and integrated solutions help to ensure health really is for all. Some of the ways we deliver healthcare and disease control to hard-to-reach populations: For more details please […]
Community-based deworming campaign launched in two provinces in Angola
A Mass Drug Administration (MDA) campaign targeting the two most prevalent Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in Angola was launched last week (29 March). For the first time in the country, deworming treatments are being administered to children outside of schools and adults at the community level. This new approach makes sure the drugs used to […]
Making water truly safe: WASH and the risk of vector-borne diseases in urban settings
The MENTOR Initiative urge immediate action to integrate disease control with water and sanitation, as the UN 2023 Water Conference gets underway today (22 March) to address the global water agenda. Otherwise, many millions of people living in densely populated urban settings are at risk of death and suffering from vector-borne diseases. Richard Allan, MENTOR […]
Neglected Tropical Disease Infographic
World NTD Day
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are estimated to cause suffering to over 1.7 billion people worldwide. MENTOR is working with its partners to tackle NTDs such as dengue and leishmaniasis, in the challenging context of humanitarian emergencies. The disease burden is especially high in these settings due to conflict, inaccessibility and populations that are often displaced […]
The MENTOR Initiative 20th Anniversary
20 years ago today, Richard Allan founded The MENTOR Initiative to reduce death and suffering from tropical diseases in humanitarian crises. MENTOR was established to deliver emergency healthcare quickly and effectively in the most dire, complex situations drawing from Richard’s specialist knowledge and disease control experience. The first programme was researching the efficacy of Insecticide […]
Sharing best practice at the Neglected Tropical Diseases Conference, September 2022
The MENTOR Initiative, a sponsor of the Neglected Tropical Diseases NGO Network (NNN) conference, attended in person to share experiences and best practice with implementing partners and national NTD programmes. MENTOR is an active member of NNN and contributed to some of the cross-cutting groups that met. The theme of the conference: NTDs in health […]
Targeting Neglected Tropical Diseases in South Sudan
The MENTOR Initiative is working closely with its partners to control and subsequently eliminate onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis in South Sudan, which are among the five endemic Neglected Tropical Diseases that respond to Preventive Chemotherapy (PC-NTDs). MENTOR and the South Sudan National NTD Programme, with funding from The END Fund, is targeting onchocerciasis – commonly […]
Published: Mapping Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis in Angola
New research on Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) control in Angola was recently published, enabling health officials to accurately plan and implement activities that significantly reduce the burden of Schistosomiasis (SCH) and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) in the country.
“Disease control in countries with highest burden more important than ever” says MENTOR CEO
Today (23 June 2022) at the Kigali Summit on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, we will hear about the progress been made to overcome these diseases that cause death and suffering to a large proportion of the world’s population. But we still need to ramp up the critical work to tackle malaria and NTDs in […]