Neglected Diseases

Saraswoti, who suffered terrible burns when she stumbled into a pot of oil heating on the open-fire stove in the middle of her family’s one-room home, sits with her father.

Unmeasured and Unfunded: Lack of Data Hinders Burn Prevention and Care

Saraswoti Shrestha was burned as a child when she fell into a cooking fire in her family's previous one-room home.

Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

graphic of chemistry lab

Tapping Student Potential: Q&A on DNDi’s Open Synthesis Network with Ben Perry

Women in DRC soaking cassava

Neglected Diseases

Konzo: Don't Look Away

Konzo survivors in Mozambique, 1981. Image courtesy of Julie Cliff

Neglected Diseases

Julie Cliff on Konzo, the Orphan Disease

Amy Maxmen interviewing

Neglected Diseases

“Like a Nightmare”: Amy Maxmen on Konzo

Etienne Tshiluanjim, 28, center in the wheelchair, leaving the Tomisa clinic in Kahemba with a group of children also suffering from konzo

Neglected Diseases

Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease, Part III

Gaby Ngabu Kasongo and Grace Neema Bandole looking through their engagement photos

Neglected Diseases

Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease: Part II

Cassava is dried and sold alongside the roads outside of Kahemba.

Neglected Diseases

Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease: Part I

Men suffering from mycetoma

Neglected Diseases

The Untold Global Health Story of 2015: Mycetoma

photo of the WHA

Attention Finally for a Neglected Disease

Neglected Diseases

An Obscure Disease Hits WHO Where It Counts