neglected diseases

Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa University medical campus on sunny day with a blue sky background.

A Forgotten, Yet Life-Threatening Infection

Luis Pizarro at Kimpese hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where DNDi undertook several studies to develop drugs for sleeping sickness and river blindness. June 2022. Kenny Mbala/DNDi

Neglected Diseases

Carrying the Torch in the Fight Against Neglected Diseases

A young girl is at MSF’s cutaneous leishmaniasis treatment center with her uncle at Naseerullah Khan Babar memorial hospital, Peshawar. Nov. 1, 2020 Image by Nasir Ghafoor/Courtesy of MSF

Covid-19 Hinders Pakistan's Progress on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Active screening for sleeping sickness in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo credit: FIND/Ndung’u 2018

Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Lesson in Elimination?

A woman's left foot is checked for mycetoma by DNDi staff in Sudan; her right leg was infected with mycetoma and had to be amputated. Image by Neil Brandvold/DNDi

Fighting off the Flesh Eater: Controlling Mycetoma in Sub-Saharan Africa

Children in Sennar State, Sudan, a country afflicted by mycetoma.

The Road Ahead for the Most Neglected Disease

Ankitkumar, an 8-year-old boy in India's Bihar State

Leprosy: The Search for the Missing Millions

GHN's map of attendees at the ASTMH Annual Meeting

GHN at #TropMed16

Neglected Diseases

Why Mycetoma? Q&A with Annie Liang and Simran Dhunna