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 ...

The International Day of the Tropics was designated to raise awareness to the specific challenges faced by tropical areas, the far-reaching implications of the issues affecting the world’s ...

The Federal Government on Wednesday said progress has been recorded in eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases, with approximately 30 million Nigerians weaned off treatment with ivermectin.Ivermectin ...

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 ...

The burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases in Brazil, 1990-2016: A subnational analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018;12 (6):e0006559.

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families Vaccine hesitancy grew as memories of these diseases faded ...

A critical tropical cyclone forecasting tool will be terminated permanently ...

Tropical Depression Two has formed in the Bay of Campeche roughly 100 miles off the coast of southeastern Mexico, and is forecast to become the second tropical storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane ...

Poster #21 - Development and use of mobile application for transboundary animal and emerging zoonotic diseases surveillance – a One Health project for improving human, animal health and food security ...

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 ...

Over the years, there have been concerted efforts to eliminate and manage the aftereffects of neglected tropical diseases globally. A project launched by the University of Health and Allied ...