Every neglected tropical disease places overseas American military forces, workers and travelers at risk. And increasingly, these diseases threaten Americans within the continental United States.

It’s likely you’ve heard of malaria, HIV-AIDs and tuberculosis. These three diseases continue to have a massive impact on human health across the globe. You may not be familiar, however, with ...

It's called noma and is a disease of poverty, striking mainly children. Most patients die. Survivors are badly disfigured. Now there's a campaign to add it to the list of neglected tropical diseases ...

Imagine that. Paying attention to a problem and working together to solve it actually works. Five years after the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) convened to set ambitious ...

The goals of the Neglected Tropical Diseases Roadmap, a plan to control, eliminate or eradicate leprosy and other ancient illnesses, are being achieved: WHO.

Diseases like Guinea worm are close to eradication, while 40 countries have completely eliminated one or more neglected tropical diseases within their borders. Simple interventions like hand ...

About 1.5 billion people in 149 countries, down from 1.9 billion in 2010, are affected by neglected tropical diseases (NTD), a group of 18 disorders that disproportionately affect the very poor.

The neglected tropical diseases impact millions of the world’s poorest each year. Now researchers in Africa can advance their drug discovery efforts through Collaborative Drug Discovery.

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of 20 conditions that mostly affect impoverished communities in tropical areas. These diseases are known to afflict the poorest people who ...

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 ...