Barry Bunin, like all successful entrepreneurs, has a skilled eye for recognizing needs—and heading them off—long before others. In 2004, when he started Eli Lilly spin-off software company ...

Description: The Neglected Tropical Diseases are a group of conditions that affect the poorest one fourth of the world's ...

SDG 1 - No poverty, SDG 3 - Good health and wellbeing, SDG 10 - Reduced inequalities. Neglected tropical diseases refers to a group of diseases caused by diverse pathogens, including viruses, bacteria ...

It’s a disease of children living in extreme poverty. Its cause is uncertain. So is the number of children it affects. But soon, the devastating condition known as noma may be a bit less neglected.

Around 2018, Diango Tounkara started having trouble seeing at night. "I didn't know what was wrong," she says in Bambara, a language spoken in her native Mali. "It was getting worse and worse by the ...

It started out as malaria – or at least that's what her grandparents thought. But there was another devious infection lurking beneath the surface of her skin and inside her mouth. Mulikat Okanlawon ...

Fidel Strub was 3 years old when his face began rotting away. “It’s hell. It’s like you have a burning face,” he told me. “You can’t even open your eyes because it’s just that bad. It’s just burning.” ...

Dr. Rebollo warned that the future of these communities now depends on choices being made today. With global funding shrinking, several African countries are being forced to innovate. Ethiopia, Kenya ...

A study of migrants in Italy has shown how statistical modeling can help improve the identification of neglected tropical disease (NTD) infections. NTDs are a group of 21 diseases that ...

TANZANIA has made notable strides in the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), recording reductions of up to 94 per cent in several debilitating infections nationwide. According to data ...

Michael Head has previously received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Department for International Development. Bayaki Saka and Palokinam Pitche do not work for, consult, ...