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Neglected tropical diseases

There are currently a range of communicable diseases classified as ‘neglected tropical diseases’. NTDs affect over one billion people worldwide and cause immense human suffering, chronic disability and around 500,000 deaths a year 

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FILM: On the 5th Anniversary of the London Declaration on NTDs (February 2017), we looked back on some of our favourite moments in the fight against NTDs

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FILM: Dengue is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the world, spreading from nine countries to over one hundred in the past 50 years. The disease burden has grown from 15,000 cases per year in the 1960s to 390 million today 
PRESENTATION: This presentation outlines the results from the dengue integrated vector management project in Cambodia, which considered a range of approaches for effective vector control, including using guppy fish 
NEWS: Our COMDIS-HSD Research Programme Consortium has received an extension to pilot-test materials and processes designed to improve capacity to detect, manage and record NTDs in Ethiopia 

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