“They're called neglected tropical diseases for good reason — and they're always going to be bottom of the list of priorities in low- and middle-income countries’ strategic health planning.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

India experiences the world’s absolute burden of at least 11 NTDs, including hookworm, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, leprosy, kala-azar, and rabies, representing the highest number of cases worldwide ...

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 ...

and vaccines in the treatment of neglected tropical diseases and emerging infections including COVID-19. The Division of Pediatric Tropical Medicine is dedicated largely to the research of neglected ...

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 ...