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==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''<br> | |||
'''Bolded entries are the diseases on the WHO list''' | |||
*[[Amebiasis]] | |||
*[[Balantidiasis]] | |||
*[[Bartonella henselae]] | |||
*[[Buruli ulcer]] | |||
*[[Chagas Disease]] | |||
*[[Cholera]] | |||
*[[Dengue Fever]] | |||
*[[Dracunculiasis]] (Guinea Worm disease) | |||
*[[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]] | |||
**[[Ascariasis]] | |||
**[[Hookworm]] | |||
**[[Trichuriasis]] | |||
**[[Strongyloides]] | |||
*[[Taenia]]/[[Cysticercosis]] | |||
*[[Trachoma]] | *[[Trachoma]] | ||
*[[Yaws]] | |||
*[[Yellow fever]] | |||
==See Also== | |||
*[[Travel medicine]] | |||
==External Links== | |||
*[[Wikipedia:Neglected Tropical Disease Research and Development]] | |||
*[[Wikipedia:Neglected diseases]] | |||
*[http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/ntd/ CDC: Neglected Tropical Diseases] | |||
*[http://www.neglecteddiseases.gov/ USAIDS: NTD Program] | |||
*[http://www.globalnetwork.org/ Global Network: Neglected Tropical Diseases] | |||
==References== | |||
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[[Category: | [[Category:Tropical Medicine]] | ||
[[Category:ID]] | |||
Latest revision as of 03:14, 14 December 2020
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 henselae
- Buruli ulcer
- Chagas Disease
- Cholera
- Dengue Fever
- Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm disease)
- 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
See Also
External Links
- Wikipedia:Neglected Tropical Disease Research and Development
- Wikipedia:Neglected diseases
- CDC: Neglected Tropical Diseases
- USAIDS: NTD Program
- Global Network: Neglected Tropical Diseases