For close to two decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development has partnered with countries around the world to combat neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs. The term refers to a group of ...

It’s a disease of children living in extreme poverty. Its cause is uncertain. So is the number of children it affects. But soon, the devastating condition known as noma may be a bit less neglected.

Some diseases are rare, in that they are experienced by relatively few people. Others are neglected, in that few, if any, drugs are available to treat them. Rare and neglected diseases aren’t rare in ...

The trip from Zanzibar to San Francisco — via Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa and Washington, DC — is gruelling at the best of times. For Delali Attipoe, suffering from dengue fever just as she set off, it ...

A nurse gives gives medicine, Ivermectin, against onchocerciasis or river blindness. Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images Neglected tropical diseases are a group of communicable diseases found in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You've likely heard about "neglect," but is "over neglect" a term invented by social media? While over-neglect is not a clinical ...

With their heads held high but their spirits lower than should be, they walk among us. “I don’t need any help,” they say with a smile. “But what do you need?” they ask others with genuine interest.