Snakebite is just one of many so called ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’, or NTDs, that receive far too little global attention given the vast impact they have on communities around the world.
Matthieu Chevallier, MSF Access Campaign’s Global Health Advocacy Officer, tries to unpack in seven key points, the different facets of this gross neglect. The more he looks at it, the more he begins to wonder: is it the disease itself, or is it the victims that we turn away from?
