From Chagas disease to chikungunya, river blindness to sleeping sickness, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) affect 1.7 billion people and kill thousands every year. The Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

The World Health Organization’s 2030 road map for neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs, includes recommendations for incorporating water, sanitation, and hygiene, or WASH, into NTD prevention ...

A clinical trial of a new treatment for one of the world's deadliest parasitic diseases is under way in Liverpool. Visceral leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease found in parts of Asia ...

Cairo (AFP) – The world's only research centre on mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease common among farmers, has been destroyed in Sudan's two-year war, its director and another expert say.