Neglected Diseases

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#TropMed17 Lands in Charm City

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

Leprosy: The Search for the Missing Millions

Urmila Devi Poddar stands beside her husband Ladayan Poddar, who accidentally touched a live wire and suffered burns so severe that his right arm had to be amputated.

Images of Blazing Injustice: Nepal's Burn Survivors

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

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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

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Julie Cliff on Konzo, the Orphan Disease

Amy Maxmen interviewing

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“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

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

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

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

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

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