Many of these diseases cause tremendous suffering and death -- yet there's still a lack of effective tools to diagnose, treat, and prevent them.
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Every year, around 455 million get scabies. Not that you'd know, because no one talks about it.
Schistosome worms infect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Researchers have discovered how to use inexpensive drones to identify disease hotspots in remote African villages.
There's a big market for new treatments for TB, malaria and other ailments. But most of these diseases afflict low-income people unable to pay for medicine.
Scientists need to continue working across disciplines to find ways to disrupt disease transmission in the context of climate change.
A cure for many tropical diseases was discovered 30 years ago this month. The drug is donated by its manufacturer. Why are we still dealing with neglected tropical diseases?
How will the World Health Organisation's Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus deal with the mounting challenges? Africa's academics have some tips.
Scabies was one of the scourges of those on the First Fleet, but no longer known for most in Australian society. However, in the far remote North, scabies infection is endemic.
There's a growing body of evidence that shows we could be doing more for the close to billion children at risk of intestinal worms. We simply cannot afford to ignore it.
Although a drug of known safety and efficacy is available, scabies still affects more than 100 million people across the world.
A century and a half after buruli ulcer was discovered, the disease continues to mystify scientists.
Although there have been global efforts to eliminate parasites, some parasites and vectors will have survived attack because they have evolved resistance.
The collapse of Syria's health system is helping spread leishmaniasis but not in the way some media outlets have reported.
The drug that led to two scientists wining the Nobel Prize for Physiology or medicine has made a significant difference for those suffering from elephantiasis and river blindness.
Health has secured its place as one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. But without clear mechanisms to report, finance or engage other sectors, could more end up as less?
This parasitic infection is endemic in Central and South America, and can lead to serious health complications. Though rare in the US, incidence is starting to increase.
Some experts worry that the Ebola crisis is diverting attention and resources away from neglected diseases with a substantially larger disease incidence.
Onchocerciasis, or river blindness as it’s more commonly known, is a major public health problem in the wet tropics, and especially in tropical Africa. This eye and skin disease is caused by a filaria…
In sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Latin America, there is a parasitic worm that infects about 25m people, causing serious skin diseases, epilepsy and blindness. Known as Onchocerca volvulus, it can live…
In rural sub-Saharan Africa, a child who wants to succeed in school faces an uphill struggle. Families often lack the income they need to pay school fees and those who are fortunate enough to attend may…
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Senior Staff Specialist, Alice Springs Hospital. Honorary, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Lecturer in Parasitology and Evolutionary Biology, University of New England
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PhD Candidate, Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, McGill University
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President of the Royal Statistical Society and Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Population Health, Lancaster University
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Research Associate Professor, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor-Division of Infectious Diseases, The Ohio State University
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Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
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Professor of Biochemical Parasitology, University of Glasgow
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Group Leader, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician, Royal Children's Hospital, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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