Neglected tropical diseases: Difference between revisions

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Background

Group of diseases that disproportionately affects the poorest populations in the world
- 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
Worldwide they affect about 1 in 6 people

List of Diseases

List varies by source, the below 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
- Ascariasis
- Hookworm
- Trichuriasis
- Strongylodes
Taenia/Cysticercosis
Trachoma
Yaws
Yellow fever

Sources

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+==Background==
+*Group of diseases that disproportionately affects the poorest populations in the world
+**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
+*Worldwide they affect about 1 in 6 people
+==List of Diseases==
+*'''List varies by source, the below 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]]'''
+**'''[[Ascariasis]]'''
+**'''[[Hookworm]]'''
+**'''[[Trichuriasis]]'''
+**'''[[Strongylodes]]'''
+*'''[[Taenia/Cysticercosis]]'''
+*'''[[Trachoma]]'''
+*'''[[Yaws]]'''
+*[[Yellow fever]]
+==Sources==
+*[[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
 [[Category:TropMed]]