Neglected tropical diseases

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