Writing about Neglected Tropical Diseases

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are so called because they exclusively affect the poor and marginalized in low-income countries and receive little attention. They include several parasitic, bacterial and viral infections and are the most common afflictions of humankind.

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Within Malaria Consortium's website please see "Neglected Tropical Diseases", "Neglected Tropical Diseases - Situation analyses and intervention options appraisals in eastern Africa", "Lymphatic filariasis" and "Control of visceral leishmaniasis, southern Sudan".

Also see Malaria Consortium Articles in the Resource Centre

• Neglected tropical diseases in Uganda: the prospect and challenge of integrated control. Trends in Parasitology
• Kala-azar control, Uganda. Emerging Infectious Diseases 13:507-509.

General Links

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal
• WHO welcomes US funding for neglected tropical diseases
• Controlling Neglected Tropical Diseases Could Help Make Poverty History
• Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, the New England Journal of Medicine
• Incorporating a Rapid-Impact Package for Neglected Tropical Diseases with Programs for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
• Neglected Tropical Diseases - Hidden Successes, Emerging Opportunities
• Study finds multiple neglected tropical diseases effectively treated with drugs
• What Are Neglected Tropical Diseases?
• Neglected Tropical Diseases Burden Those Overseas, But Travelers Also at Risk
• Forgotten Diseases: Help for the Helpless
• Measuring the Burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Global Burden of Disease Framework
• Integrated Mass Treatment Of The Neglected Tropical Diseases In Niger

Professor Paul Hunt - Human Rights and Neglected Diseases

• "Neglected diseases: A human rights analysis"
• Neglected Diseases, Social Justice and Human Rights: Some Preliminary Observations

For specific Neglected diseases

• Buruli ulcer
• Leishmaniasis
• Chagas disease
• Leprosy
• Cholera/Epidemic diarrhoeal diseases
• Lymphatic filariasis
• Dengue/dengue haemorrhagic fever
• Onchocerciasis
• Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease)
• Schistosomiasis
• Endemic Treponematoses (yaws, pinta, endemic syphilis...)
• Soil-transmitted helminthiasis
• Trachoma
• Human African trypanosomiasis