For the past two decades, large multinational pharmaceutical companies have increasingly withdrawn from researching medicines ...
In March, Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency over an alarming outbreak of dengue fever. Local officials have confirmed more than 500 cases of the potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus as ...
Scorpion sting envenomation meets all the criteria to be recognised as a neglected tropical disease, yet it remains ...
Overcrowding at Kumasi Central Prison has turned it into a laboratory for treating neglected tropical diseases. The lack of ...
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.
For close to two decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development has partnered with countries around the world to combat neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs. The term refers to a group of ...
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 ...
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 ...
In recent decades, there has been increasing focus on individual responsibility for health. The emphasis for non-communicable ...
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.” ...
Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...
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