Fighting neglected tropical diseases to build human capital

The fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has caused an overwhelming economic burden to many countries, which has stalled human ...

Addressing Inequity: Neglected Tropical Diseases and Human Rights

The resolution also called for the integration of NTD efforts into primary health services. NTDs were subsequently included in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) ...

The U.S. Government and Global Neglected Tropical Disease Efforts

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a set of infectious diseases grouped together due to their often chronic, disfiguring, ...

Invest in neglected tropical diseases | Uniting to Combat NTDs

We are a global advocacy organisation that exists to end neglected tropical diseases by mobilising resources. ... By building human capital, it will ultimately ...

Path to global health equity: neglected tropical diseases

Neglected tropical diseases have a significant human impact ... Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – illnesses like Chagas disease, dengue fever, ...

Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD)

Our team coordinates and supports policies and strategies to enhance global access to interventions for the prevention, control, elimination and eradication ...

Neglected Tropical Diseases | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

To eradicate, eliminate, or control eight of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) recognized by the WHO and to improve non-NTD health outcomes using the ...

Global NTD Programs | Neglected Tropical Diseases - CDC

Global neglected tropical disease (NTD) programs focus on identifying regions and countries where NTDs are present and working to control or ...

Five ways innovation is changing the fight against Neglected ...

For too long the medical needs of people affected by neglected tropical diseases have been ignored. But there are reasons for hope. In some places we can ...

The case for participation and human rights based approaches | NNN

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are causes and consequences of poverty, disability and marginalization. They disproportionately affect the world's ...

An Investment Case for Ending Neglected Tropical Diseases - NCBI

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect more than 1 billion of the poorest and most marginalized people of the world.

Combating neglected tropical diseases | Africa Renewal

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new report highlighting the progress and challenges in delivering Neglected Tropical Diseases care worldwide.

Global partners pledge US$ 777 million to combat neglected tropical ...

This global initiative unites efforts with countries endemic for NTDs to address the impact of climate change on these diseases. The pledged ...

Neglected tropical diseases: an effective global response to local ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) conceived an innovative strategy in the early 2000s to combat NTDs as a group of diseases, based on a ...

Now Is Not the Time to Quit Fighting Neglected Tropical Diseases

By maintaining progress against NTDs, together we strengthen local communities' and whole countries' capacity to keep people healthy. The public ...

What are neglected tropical diseases - The World Economic Forum

To date, 54 countries have eliminated at least one neglected tropical disease, according to the global advocacy organization, Uniting to Combat ...

Editorial: Neglected tropical diseases: tackling the challenges of a ...

From multidisciplinary and integrated scientific research to governments, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector must join forces to develop ...

101: What are neglected tropical diseases? - Uniting to Combat NTDs

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of twenty-one different diseases and infections that can cause significant disfigurement, disability, and death.

An insight into the Success, Challenges, and Future perspectives of ...

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) largely affect people in tropical and subtropical parts of the world, especially in economically disadvantaged and ...

To end the neglect of neglected tropical diseases - The Lancet

Dracunculiasis, one of the two NTDs that the roadmap aims to eradicate, is already on the verge of eradication, with only 54 human cases ...