Over 1 billion people are impacted by neglected tropical diseases. Devex explores what WHO’s updated road map means and ...

Mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue and chikungunya, sleeping sickness, and leprosy, amongst others, feature on the list. The agency estimates that 1.5 billion people each year require treatment due ...

A decline in R&D investment in neglected tropical diseases threatens progress toward critical targets. For over 20 years, one nonprofit has led research on lesser-known diseases and is now seeking new ...

Malaria, dengue, leprosy and tuberculosis are some of the many tropical diseases. Find out the risks for contracting swine flu and take the necessary precautionary steps. Swine flu caused a ...

Many of these diseases are what scientists and policymakers have been calling neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) since Peter Hotez and colleagues coined the term 20 years ago. NTDs are a ...

India experiences the world’s absolute burden of at least 11 NTDs, including hookworm, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, leprosy, ...

Our expertise in taxonomy, systematics, field trials and treatment programmes is driving live-saving research into neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted ...

Despite their prevalence, these so-called neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) remain largely overlooked in the global health policy agenda. But at Nagasaki University’s Institute of Tropical ...

Baylor Medicine Infectious Diseases in Houston, Texas, offers inpatient and outpatient consultative services in all aspects of infectious diseases. Our specialists diagnose and treat the full range of ...

Yet this highly developed nation is focusing its scientific knowledge and technological capabilities on developing treatments for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The World Health Organization ...

Over one billion people are at risk of, or already afflicted by, 'neglected' tropical diseases. These are parasitic and bacterial infections, largely eradicated in the developed world, that persist ...