Sudan 2010 © Olga Overbeek
Learn about the issues MSF & others confront in the diagnosis and treatment of neglected diseases.
Neglected Diseases
Stimulating awareness about the urgent need for new, better and treatment and tests for diseases like leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and Chagas Disease is key to our work.
26. March 2013
BURULI ULCER
Better Tools & Treatment needed for Buruli Ulcer
Existing diagnostic tools and treatments are failing to deliver simple, effective care to people with the serious skin infection, Buruli Ulcer.
» REPORT: Treating Buruli Ulcer: A Review of Prospects for Existing Antibiotics and New Therapeutics
» BRIEFING: Ending the Neglect of a Disease That Impacts the Young
Cameroon 2011 © Albert Masias
NTDs: The Issues
NTDs: The Issues
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Chagas disease is far and away Latin America’s deadliest parasitic disease, affecting 10 million people worldwide...
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MSF & Neglected Diseases
MSF & Neglected Diseases
DRC 2011 © Robin Meldrum
An overview of where and how MSF is treating neglected diseases around the world.
Neglected Diseases Facts
Around 10 million people are infected by the parasite t. cruzi and up to one-third of them, if left untreated, will reach the late stage of Chagas disease which is accompanied by heart complications.
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