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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
*Group of diseases that disproportionately affects the poorest populations in the world | *Group of diseases that disproportionately affects the poorest populations in the world | ||
**Cause significant disability and developmental delays | **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 | *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 of Diseases== | ||
''List varies by source - this list aims to be comprehensive of all lists referenced''<br> | |||
'''Bolded entries are the diseases on the WHO list''' | |||
*[[Amebiasis]] | *[[Amebiasis]] | ||
*[[Balantidiasis]] | *[[Balantidiasis]] | ||
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*[[Yellow fever]] | *[[Yellow fever]] | ||
== | ==External Links== | ||
*[[Wikipedia:Neglected Tropical Disease Research and Development]] | *[[Wikipedia:Neglected Tropical Disease Research and Development]] | ||
*[[Wikipedia:Neglected diseases]] | *[[Wikipedia:Neglected diseases]] | ||
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*http://www.plosntds.org/static/scope;jsessionid=F65C850118F0BF22D35DBEFF56F0B26C | *http://www.plosntds.org/static/scope;jsessionid=F65C850118F0BF22D35DBEFF56F0B26C | ||
==References== | |||
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[[Category:TropMed]] | [[Category:TropMed]] | ||
[[Category:ID]] | [[Category:ID]] | ||
Revision as of 11:44, 22 August 2015
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
- http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/ntd/
- http://www.neglecteddiseases.gov/
- http://www.globalnetwork.org/
- http://www.plosntds.org/static/scope;jsessionid=F65C850118F0BF22D35DBEFF56F0B26C