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.
14. April 2012
INT'L CHAGAS DAY
Much work still needed to silence Chagas Disease
OP-ED: Despite significant inroads made in recent years against Chagas disease; additional funding and research support are still needed to give the suffererers of this silent and neglected disease the attention they deserve.
Paraguay 2012 © MSF/Anna Surinyach
Neglected Diseases: The Issues
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