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Revision as of 14:21, 19 September 2017
Background
- Group of diseases that disproportionately affects the poorest populations in the world
- Worldwide they affect about 1 in 6 people
- Cause significant disability and developmental delays → as such, they often perpetuate the cycle of poverty
- Estimated to be the cause of about half a million deaths per year
- Also cause the loss of more than 57million DALY's yearly
List of Diseases
List varies by source - this list aims to be comprehensive of all lists referenced
Bolded entries are the diseases on the WHO list
- Amebiasis
- Balantidiasis
- Bartonella
- Buruli Ulcer
- Chagas Disease
- Cholera
- Dengue Fever
- Drancunculosis (Guinea-worm)
- Echinococcosis
- Fascioliasis
- Food borne Trematodes (flatworms)
- Giardia
- Human African Trypansomiasis (Sleeping sickness)
- Loa Loa
- Leishmaniasis
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Lymphatic filariasis
- Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
- Rabies
- Rift Valley Fever
- Schistosomiasis
- Soil transmitted helminths
- Taenia/Cysticercosis
- Trachoma
- Yaws
- Yellow fever
External Links
- Wikipedia:Neglected Tropical Disease Research and Development
- Wikipedia:Neglected diseases
- CDC: Neglected Tropical Diseases
- USAIDS: NTD Program
- Global Network: Neglected Tropical Diseases