Leishmaniasis Project
Beneficiaries: Leishmaniasis patients
Cities / Region involved: Afghanistan
Period: 2004
Sources of funding: Spes, in partnership with CIMIC
Total cost: 4.000 euros
Project Status: concluded
Leishmaniasis are an infectious diseases caused by protozoan parasites, transferred to humans by sand flies. If not cured, it can cause death. Together with tha group Cimic ( civil and military cooperation) many medical examinations were performed. The main purpose was to treat leishmaniosis, which particularly affects Afghan children and can be recognized because of ulcers in different distircts of the body. For the same purpose, to cure leishmaniasis, pentavalent antimony (sodium stibogluconate = Pentostan) was delivered to Afghanistan.
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