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: Fighting malaria in Mozambique - digital health, community engagement and collaborative partnership 17 January 2019
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- News: New pilot intervention in Ethiopia prepares communities for fight against NTDs 17 July 2018
- News: Malaria Consortium at MIM: fighting malaria with a shared voice 16 April 2018
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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