The itinerant exhibition of the Fontilles Foundation entitled Neglected diseases. Women and girls forgotten It stops in the Marina Alta district and is located, until the 15 in October, in the CuidArt Room of the Dénia Hospital. The Ministry of Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation of the Generalitat Valenciana also collaborates in this exhibition.
The sample, made up of several panels, seeks to raise awareness of the need for the fight against neglected diseases and their consequences to incorporate measures that promote gender equality and facilitate access for women and girls to adequate information and services. Among the measures is to suppress laws and policies that favor discrimination, and end discriminatory social practices; eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls in the public and private sphere.
The exhibition teaches that neglected tropical diseases encompass a series of ailments such as leprosy, Chagas disease, Buruli ulcer, lymphatic filariasis, leishmaniasis or dengue, which according to the World Health Organization data They affect one sixth of the world's population, each year causing death or permanent disability to hundreds of thousands of people as a result of the difficulties of distributing the treatment to the affected groups.
In addition, almost all women and girls living in poverty in Africa, Asia or Latin America, suffer from one or more neglected tropical diseases and are at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion as a result of the gender gap, of disabilities and the stigma. And this despite the fact that the eradication of
These diseases are part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in force the 1 of January of 2016
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The exhibition is part of a series of initiatives carried out by Fontilles to raise awareness about the neglect of neglected tropical diseases, which also includes the web site on diseasesolvidadas.org, published last year, and the publication of two videos of awareness, which They will start broadcasting in September.
Fontilles Foundation is the leading Spanish entity in the fight against leprosy since the opening in 1909 of the sanatorium of the same name in the municipality of La Vall de Laguar, an international reference center in the disease. In addition, from 1986 develops international cooperation projects with the aim of ending leprosy and its consequences, especially in children, as well as with other neglected diseases linked to poverty, and to support the sustainable development of affected populations.
The 24 initiatives that the entity develops during 2018 benefit more than 300.000 people in 11 countries in Asia (India, Nepal and Vietnam), Africa (Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia) and Latin America (Bolivia, Nicaragua, Brazil, Ecuador and Honduras).
