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Neglected Diseases

The Most Neglected NTD: Cryptosporidiosis

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Neglected Diseases

A Promising Fight Against a Silent Killer

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Monique Wasunna stands on a stage delivering her keynote to a packed audience.
Neglected Diseases

Neglected Diseases Are Fierce, But So Is Monique Wasunna

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Aron Villanueva tends to the grave of his grandson Axel Villanueva who died of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, in Ejido Padre Kino, Mexico.
Infectious Diseases

A Lethal Disease Hidden in Plain Sight in Mexico

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Global Health

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2025 Untold Global Health Stories Contest!

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

A Forgotten, Yet Life-Threatening Infection

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Eliud Wekesa, hands clasped, with a graying beard and wearing a bright purple robe, speaks to visitors outside his home and church compound in Tongaren, Bungoma County, Kenya, on February 29, 2024.
Neglected Diseases

The Push to Get Kenyan Cult Leaders to Embrace Modern Medicine

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A leprosy patient sits outside the abandoned Curupaiti Colony Hospital in Rio de Janeiro on November 21, 2021.
Neglected Diseases

Neglected Tropical Diseases: Integrate to Eliminate

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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

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Karupayee with M. Raja and A. Vincent of the Mahelerecen Leprosy center in Madurai, India. March, 2022. Kamala Thiagarajan
Neglected Diseases

How COVID-19 Set Back India’s Battle with Leprosy

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Custom-made microcellular rubber sandals are manufactured and given free of charge to patients at The Leprosy Mission Trust Hospital in Dayapuram, Manamadurai, for relief from foot ulcers and the management of leprosy-related disabilities. Kamala Thiagarajan
Neglected Diseases

Why Leprosy Persists in India

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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
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Covid-19 Hinders Pakistan's Progress on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

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