Barry Bunin, like all successful entrepreneurs, has a skilled eye for recognizing needs—and heading them off—long before others. In 2004, when he started Eli Lilly spin-off software company ...

New research led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) warns that hybrid forms of the parasites that cause ...

It’s a disease of children living in extreme poverty. Its cause is uncertain. So is the number of children it affects. But soon, the devastating condition known as noma may be a bit less neglected.

SDG 1 - No poverty, SDG 3 - Good health and wellbeing, SDG 10 - Reduced inequalities. Neglected tropical diseases refers to a group of diseases caused by diverse pathogens, including viruses, bacteria ...

Around 2018, Diango Tounkara started having trouble seeing at night. "I didn't know what was wrong," she says in Bambara, a language spoken in her native Mali. "It was getting worse and worse by the ...

It started out as malaria – or at least that's what her grandparents thought. But there was another devious infection lurking beneath the surface of her skin and inside her mouth. Mulikat Okanlawon ...

A study of migrants in Italy has shown how statistical modeling can help improve the identification of neglected tropical disease (NTD) infections. NTDs are a group of 21 diseases that ...

Fidel Strub was 3 years old when his face began rotting away. “It’s hell. It’s like you have a burning face,” he told me. “You can’t even open your eyes because it’s just that bad. It’s just burning.” ...

Mulikat Okanlawon, a noma survivor and fierce patient advocate. How is it that after decades of practicing infectious disease and studying tropical medicine briefly in Peru, India, and Thailand—I only ...

Michael Head has previously received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Department for International Development. Bayaki Saka and Palokinam Pitche do not work for, consult, ...