{"id":2703,"date":"2018-07-26T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T09:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.fondationpierrefabre.org\/our-programmes\/dermatologie-en-milieu-tropical\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T17:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T16:22:50","slug":"tropical-dermatology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.fondationpierrefabre.org\/en\/our-programmes\/tropical-dermatology\/","title":{"rendered":"Dermatology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dermatology<\/h1>\n

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Train health professionals, develop diagnosis and participate in prevention and treatment cancers in people with albinism : the Pierre Fabre Foundation contributes to filling the gap for the management of skin diseases in Africa.<\/span><\/h5>\n
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Skin diseases are among the\u00a0first reasons people seek medical consultation in emerging countries, but they are difficult to\u00a0treat due to the lack of medicalstaff training in peripheral health centres in these \u201cnon-priority\u201d pathologies, the complications of which can nevertheless be severe if not promptly treated. For example, impetigo can lead to kidney failure.<\/p>\n

This challenge is coupled with a\u00a0marked lack of dermatologists, forcing patients to make long and expensive trips to seek medical advice in major urban areas. These ailments, the leading reasons behind medical consultations, are often treated in peripheral centres that suffer from a severe lack of specialists and personnel little-trained in non-priority diseases. This situation is of great concern, especially as the populations have a genuine need.<\/p>\n

These circumstances led the Fondation Pierre Fabre to invest in the field of teledermatology with a twofold commitment: training healthcare workers to treat the most common diseases and providing the technical capacities needed to\u00a0entrust the more difficult cases to specialists.<\/p>\n

At\u00a0the same time, the Foundation works on behalf of\u00a0people with albinism \u2013 a condition with particularly high prevalence in Africa \u2013 to prevent them from developing the skin cancers to which they are prone, but which can nevertheless be\u00a0avoided with greater awareness of\u00a0preventive measures to take and monitoring by dermatologists.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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