Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, ...

In the interconnected web of nature, small disruptions can yield outsized consequences. One such example comes from Central ...

By Benjamin Makafui Attipoe, Sogakope The Director in-charge of Technical Co-ordination at the Ministry of Health (MOH) and ...

Fluid, electrolyte and mineral perturbations are prevalent features of tropical disease. Hemodynamic alterations, fever, nitrogen wasting, and changes in membrane transport and acid–base balance ...

On World Neglected Tropical Disease Day 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the global partners' community are calling on everybody to unite, act and eliminate neglected tropical diseases ...

Chikungunya is mainly found in tropical and subtropical regions, with most EU cases linked to travellers who contract the virus abroad. While the disease is not an endemic in Europe, isolated cases of ...

Lancaster University is supporting World Neglected Tropical Disease Day which aims to increase awareness of a group of twenty-one different conditions that can cause significant disfigurement and ...

The dengue virus (DENV) is endemic in most tropical regions of Central and South America. It is known that when the number of mosquito vectors (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) for this disease ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis ...

Despite the Federal Government’s ambitious plan for the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) and promises to eradicate the plague by 2030, progress is stalling in the face of bureaucratic hurdles ...

Image credit: Shutterstock / Viacheslav Lopatin. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for country commitment to combat neglected tropical diseases, as the agency braces itself for losing its ...