The Duchess of Edinburgh never gets the credit she deserves for her royal work. This year alone, she travelled to 10 ...

NTDs are diseases of the socio economically disadvantaged and neglected people living in abject poverty. These include schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminth infections, blinding trachoma, Human ...

He said the NTD elimination Master Plan outlines a strategic approach to address four major diseases namely Lymphatic ...

Job Summary: Sightsavers Uganda office is seeking an experienced Project Coordinator to work with the local district government (DLGs) of Acholi Sub-region to ensure that LF Uganda NTD project is ...

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We, in India, recently eliminated trachoma as a public health problem and it has become a rarity to see eye conditions secondary to vitamin A deficiency. The National Programme for Control of ...

Tinotenda*'s childhood in Shamva, a mining town in north-eastern Zimbabwe, was normal - that is, full of promise and wild dreams.

He says Tanzania is focusing on the five preventive chemotherapy diseases that can be cured or prevented. The diseases are trachoma, river blindness, schistosomiasis, intestinal worms, and lymphatic ...

The National Coordinator for Neglected Tropical Diseases at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Fatai Oyediran, on Thursday, said about $19m is required to effectively tackle NTDs ...

The National Coordinator for Neglected Tropical Diseases at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Fatai Oyediran, on Wednesday, said two out of every three Nigerians have at least one ...

But one surprising intervention — periodically distributing antibiotics prophylactically to young children en masse — could ...