A study of migrants in Italy has shown how statistical modeling can help improve the identification of neglected tropical disease (NTD) infections. NTDs are a group of 21 diseases that ...

A major new World Health Organization publication sets out, for the first time, a practical, evidence-based package of care ...

Around 2018, Diango Tounkara started having trouble seeing at night. "I didn't know what was wrong," she says in Bambara, a language spoken in her native Mali. "It was getting worse and worse by the ...

Parasites and infections that cause blindness and other disabilities were nearly eliminated in some countries, but drug distribution to prevent and treat them was derailed in many places in 2025 after ...

A small U.S. foreign aid program worked for nearly two decades to help countries eliminate tropical diseases that aren't known to many people. The Trump administration ended the program in January. OK ...

Pathogens around the world just got a helping hand from the Trump administration. Next year should have been a year of celebration for experts dedicated to ridding the world of disabling and deadly ...

Public health specialists are warning that a dangerous disease threat is accelerating in one of the most climate‑stressed parts of the United States, where warming temperatures, shifting ecosystems ...

Tropical disease drug discovery is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of medicinal chemistry, computational biology, and global health. Despite ...

Youth are stepping into the fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Ruhango and Bugesera Districts, health issues that have long received little attention. ALSO READ: Community efforts ...