The World Bank and Neglected Tropical Diseases

The World Bank and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Building on a ...

The Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) lock people into poverty and undermine the resilience of communities. Africa experiences over 50% of the ...

Fighting neglected tropical diseases to build human capital

Recognising the nexus between poverty and disease and the importance of reducing the disease burden to improve human development, the World Bank ...

Global support for the neglected tropical diseases agenda (English)

This brief is about preventing Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) of poverty. There is global support for the control and elimination of NTDs in low income ...

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.

Treating River Blindness and Other Neglected Tropical Diseases

In the villages of Senegal and Mali, and across a large area of rural Africa, 100 million people are no longer at risk of contracting River Blindness.

Neglected tropical diseases - World Health Organization (WHO)

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of conditions of parasitic, bacterial, viral, fungal and non-communicable origin. They cause pain and ...

THE NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES AND THE ... - NCBI

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent a group of more than a dozen major chronic infectious diseases, most of them parasitic infections.

Neglected Diseases of Neglected People: The Case for Investing in ...

Infecting more than 1 billion people globally, the 7 major Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) cause blindness, disfigurement, ...

Why targeting 1.6 billion people affected by neglected tropical ...

President of the World Bank Group Ajay Banga, announcing the new health initiative at the ... neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with a health ...

An Investment Case for Ending Neglected Tropical Diseases | DCP3

The most common of the NTDs are classified as Buruli ulcer, Chagas disease, dengue, leprosy, visceral leishmaniasis, and human African trypanosomiasis. The ...

Pushing Back Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa - World Bank

The World Bank and many other partners are now working to push back all seven major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that can be prevented through medication.

Neglected tropical diseases - World Health Organization (WHO)

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of conditions 1 caused by a variety of pathogens (including viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi and ...

Amid the Conflict in Yemen, Mass Campaigns to End the Threat of ...

Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths are neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), but these parasitic worm infections can lead to ...

The World Bank and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Building on a ...

The World Bank and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Building on a History of Helping Countries Address Diseases of the Poor · Share · Summary.

Ending suffering from neglected tropical diseases: Mission possible

Neglected Tropical Diseases trap the most vulnerable populations into cycles of poverty. Controlling these diseases—which affect one in six ...

Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Renewed ...

The World Bank is committed to ending extreme poverty and increasing shared prosperity by 2030. Improving health and development through the ...

Africa - Sahel Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Project

The objective of the Sahel Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Project for Africa is to increase access to and use of harmonized community-level ...

The rise or fall of neglected tropical diseases in East Asia Pacific

Unless this situation changes the EAP could be facing a new grim reality of unhealthy megacities beset by emerging arbovirus infections, widespread ...

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

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have long been overlooked in the global health agenda. They are intimately related to poverty, ...

Neglected Tropical Diseases | Global Health - USAID

USAID focuses on 5 of the most common neglected tropical diseases, including: lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, river blindness, schistosomiasis, ...