1285 The world’s neglected tropical diseases (NTDs; Table 1) are becoming less neglected. Many millions of dollars and drugs are now committed to their control, and an open-access journal dedicated to NTDs, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, has been launched (http://www.plosntds.org/). NTDs are characterised by their prevalence in rural areas of low-income countries and fragile states, their te...

The increasing amounts of official development assistance (ODA) for health have been aimed primarily at fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Neglected tropical diseases (NTD), one of the most serious public health burdens among the most deprived communities, have only recently drawn the attention of major donors. While frequently stated, the low share of funding for NTD control projects...

Surveillance and response represent the final crucial steps in achieving effective control and particularly elimination of communicable diseases as recognized in the area of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), applied in increasing numbers in endemic countries with ongoing control and elimination programmers. More and more national NTD elimination initiatives are scheduled based on the innovati...

1285 The world’s neglected tropical diseases (NTDs; Table 1) are becoming less neglected. Many millions of dollars and drugs are now committed to their control, and an open-access journal dedicated to NTDs, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, has been launched (http://www.plosntds.org/). NTDs are characterised by their prevalence in rural areas of low-income countries and fragile states, their te...

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the most common conditions affecting the poorest 500 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and together produce a burden of disease that may be equivalent to up to one-half of SSA's malaria disease burden and more than double that caused by tuberculosis. Approximately 85% of the NTD disease burden results from helminth infections. Hookworm...

The concept of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) was established in the aftermath of the Millennium Development Goals. Here, we summarize the emergence of several new post-2010 global health documents and policies, and how they may alter the way we frame the world's major NTDs since they were first highlighted. These documents include a new Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study that identifi...

Today, the World Health Organization recognizes 17 major parasitic and related infections as the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Despite recent gains in the understanding of the nature and prevalence of NTDs, as well as successes in recent scaled-up preventive chemotherapy strategies and other health interventions, the NTDs continue to rank among the world's greatest global health problems....