Neglected Diseases

The ongoing outbreak poses a low risk to the public, but it signals cracks in our public health infrastructure.

DNDi’s Africa Ambassador Monique Wasunna reflects on her efforts to fight neglected diseases and shares insights on the work ahead, including critical needs donors are neglecting.

By setting up shop in hosts’ tissues, Trypanosoma brucei can constantly change its protective surface coat and evade antibodies for long periods of time.
 

Scientists identify protein and pathway that, if compromised, no longer protect Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from succumbing to viruses they transmit to people.
 

How a menagerie of bacteria, fungi, and parasites silently shapes human health.

This year’s World NTD Day is an opportunity to revitalize the way we tackle NTDs and catalyze better, more efficient, and bolder strategies.

 A Q&A With Luis Pizarro, DNDi’s New Executive Director 

Tuberculosis was the world’s biggest infectious disease killer—until COVID-19 came along.

The devastating parasitic disease is expanding its footprint beyond endemic areas of South America, but surveillance is still lacking.

Soon after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in Pakistan, in March, 2020, the government shut down all non-essential services, including outpatient care for an array of diseases not requiring emergency treatment. As a result, Médecins Sans Frontières was forced to…

Malaria parasite is seen as unlikely to evolve defenses against the multi-attack approach, research from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds.

The Lancet Commission on malaria eradication issued a report Sept. 8, 2019 that posits that malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases, can be eradicated as early as 2050.

The more rainfall a region in sub-Saharan Africa gets, the more mosquitoes proliferate there and the more likely its residents will sleep under their insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent malaria transmission.