Anyone who grew up in any rural village in Rwanda is familiar with intestinal worms. During my training as a medical doctor, I learned intestinal worms, also called soil-transmitted helminths, are one ...

DIRECTOR of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Research in Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (CTRMNTD), Professor Wellington Oyibo, stated that if Nigeria democratises its national action plan for ...

NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES (NTDs) The term NTDs is used to classify a group of 18 conditions predominantly caused by parasitic organisms that mainly affect low-income countries.

Just 2 Miles northeast of sleek downtown skyscrapers, across the Buffalo Bayou River from the Houston Astros’ Minute Maid Park, lies a landscape greener than most of the urban sprawl, but absent the ...

Snakebites from venomous snakes of medical importance are considered a neglected tropical disease 1, 2. Venomous snakebites are an important public health problem because of their frequency, severity, ...

AFRICA Fifty African Union Member States have endorsed a ground-breaking digital micro-planning portal co-created by Africa CDC to accelerate the elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases — a diverse ...

The Director of the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases Research of UHAS, Dr Alfred Kwesi Manyeh, explained that the project seeks to develop and integrate LF morbidity management into routine ...

Multi-Valvular Disease is Neglected and Misunderstood: Disease Patterns, Multi-modality Imaging and Treatment Strategies ...

We read with interest A. Southeast Asia regional neglected tropical disease framework: improving control of three fungal diseases.1 We would like to point out that Melioidosis is an infectious disease ...

Review the prospects for the control of neglected tropical diseases, including soil-transmitted helminthiasis, shistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, and onchocerciasis.

The photographer wants to bring attention to female genital schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by a waterborne parasitic infection, whose symptoms can be stigmatizing because they ...

THE twenty-fifth anniversary in 1923 of Sir Ronald Ross's epoxjh-making discovery of the transmission of human malaria through the bite of anopheline mosquitoes was the occasion of an appeal for ...