Mycetoma’s only research centre destroyed

蜜环菌病唯一的研究中心被毁

Health Check

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2025-05-01

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Amidst conflict in Sudan, the world-leading Mycetoma Research Centre in Khartoum has been destroyed. We talk to the centre’s founder to find out what this means for research into the neglected disease and the struggle to proving ongoing support for patients. As the Pan American Health Organization put into action lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic they share with us new telehealth services designed to reach the most remote communities across the Americas. Also on the show, a reversible and non-hormonal male contraception implant has proven effective in trials lasting two years. Plus, how does the body respond when switching from a Tanzanian heritage diet to a more processed diet? And can gradual exposure to peanuts desensitize adults with severe peanut allergies? Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Hannah Robins Assistant Producer: Katie Tomsett Studio Managers: Emma Harth and Dyfan Rose
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  • Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.

  • I'm Claudia Hammond and I'm here to dissect the latest health news from around the world.

  • And to help me today, I have the BBC's Africa health correspondent, Dorcas Wangira.

  • How are you, Dorcas?

  • I'm well, Claudia.

  • How are you?

  • I'm good, thank you.

  • What do you have for us today?

  • Today we have a non-hormonal male contraceptive and a peanut allergy trial.

  • Yeah, both really intriguing.

  • And also later on,

  • I want to ask you about some of the headlines people might have seen about a so-called traditional African diet,

  • if there is one such thing, and how it might be the way forward if you want to be healthy.

  • But we'll talk about that in more detail later.

  • So we're starting today in Sudan,

  • where millions have been displaced in the civil war and the immediate risks to health are very apparent.

  • Almost a year ago on Health Check, we discussed another consequence,

  • the risks to a centre for research into a flesh-eating disease called mysotoma.

  • Now we've had the news that the research centre,

  • which is the only one in the world and also treats patients, has been destroyed.