Neglected Diseases

Manual garbage dumping is common in Bangladesh despite the dangers to human health. Many children have no other choice but to search landfills for food. Halishahar, Chattogram, Aug. 27, 2019. Image: Shahriar Farzana.

Pictures of Public Health in Bangladesh

Sudents line up at a primary school in Brickaville, Madagascar to receive treatment for intestinal worms, November 2020. Image: The END Fund / Viviane Rakotoarivony

Winning the Global War against Neglected Tropical Diseases

Fantanesh Gedefe, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, washes her face from water stored in the “leaky tin.” Facial cleanliness is an integral component of the SAFE strategy for trachoma elimination. Brent Stirton/Getty Images Courtesy of the International Trachoma Initiative.

Dramatic Reduction in Blindness is Good News—Let’s Finish the Job

Indian residents wear face mask outside the Medical College hospital in Kerala, India on May 21, 2018, during a Nipah virus outbreak. Image: AFP via Getty

Lessons on Tackling Online Misinformation During Outbreaks

A maternity matron holds 2 baby girls, the first children conceived through IVF in Kenya, May 2006. Image: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty

Infertility as a Neglected Disease

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

Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Lesson in Elimination?

Meeting surrounding the kickoff for the HelmVit study on schistosomiasis during pregnancy and its effects on the infants immune system (Prof. da Costa is second from left). Image by Eva Arnold

A Neglected Disease, A Lab Researcher, And Real Life

An Indian snake catcher—whose skills are crucial for the production of anti-venom—displays the fangs of a Russell’s Viper at a venom extraction center in Chennai on November 11,2016.

Time to Act: WHO’s New Snakebite Strategy

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

Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

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

The Road Ahead for the Most Neglected Disease

Prayer flags fluttering above Nepal. Image Courtesy of Emaline Laney.

How Emaline Laney Found the Untold Global Health Story of 2017