Mass drug administration (MDA) is a means of delivering safe and inexpensive essential
medicines based on the principles of preventive chemotherapy, where populations or sub …

Today, the World Health Organization recognizes 17 major parasitic and related infections
as the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Despite recent gains in the understanding of the …

This article considers the current public health perspective on cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL)
and its implications for incidence, prevalence, and global burden of disease calculations. CL …

Helminth infections, including hookworm (Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duedenale),
roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and whipworm (Trichuris trichiura), collectively known as …

Buruli ulcer (BU) is a neglected tropical skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans.
Infection foci occur mainly in remote, rural areas of Central and West Africa, but also in …

Over the course of the last decade, the global community has made tremendous progress
towards neglected tropical disease (NTD) control or even elimination, especially for some of …

A principle approach to the control of some of the major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs),
including lymphatic filariasis (LF), onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminth …

Background Yaws is an infectious, debilitating and disfiguring disease of poverty that mainly
affects children in rural communities in tropical areas. In Cameroon, mass-treatment …

Although Aboriginal people make up a small percentage of the world's population, they are
disproportionately affected by poverty and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Unless …

Background. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), which is one form of leishmaniasis, may show
variations over years across regions, and epidemiological studies are crucial to estimate the …