Tunisia plays host of 2nd Africa Rare Disease Summit

The second Africa Rare Disease Summit is held in Tunisia from May 24-25, 2024. At Sanofi’s initiative, some 150 scientific experts and practitioners from 6 countries (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and South Africa) came together to share their experience in diagnosing, managing and treating the main rare disease pathologies. Over 7,000 rare diseases currently affect more than 350 million people worldwide. In Tunisia, an estimated 600,000 people suffer from rare diseases. A disease is said to be ‘rare’ when it affects less than one person out of every 2,000.…