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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- Blog: Five ways to combat the impact of climatic changes on malaria in Ethiopia 5 November 2021
- Blog: Photo story: Improving neglected tropical disease (NTD) services in Ethiopia 14 June 2021
- News: Malaria Consortium awarded prestigious Independent Research Organisation status 12 February 2021
- Blog: Celebrating our Dr Sylvia Meek scholars: Schobiechah Aldillah Wulandhari 13 January 2021
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
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