COP28 focus on health draws $US777 million to fight tropical disease
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters The United Arab Emirates and several charities at the UN climate summit on Sunday offered $US777 million in financing for eradicating neglected tropical diseases that are expected to worsen as temperatures climb. Climate-related factors “have become one of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st century”, COP28 President Sultan […]
Essay: 100 million Nigerians are at risk of neglected tropical diseases: what the country is doing about it
UWEM FRIDAY EKPO, professor of parasitology and epidemiology at Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, looks at Nigeria’s battle against neglected tropical diseases…
Tackling a killer: UK aid cuts spark fears over parasitic disease that stalks the poor
NITA BHALLA and NAIMUL KARIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
UN says UK aid cuts likely to cause thousands of needless deaths
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Millions of people risk death and disability as Britain shuts down a major aid program targeting neglected tropical diseases, the World Health Organization said. Britain’s £4 billion aid budget cuts include an exit from its health program Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ASCEND), which was due to run until […]
COVID-19 impacts: Pandemic hits India’s drive to tackle an ancient disease
ROLI SRIVASTAVA and SAURABH SHARMA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted efforts to prevent parasitic disease, lymphatic filariasis…
Postcards: “End is in sight” – tackling a rare disease in a global pandemic
EMELINE WUILBERCQ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Ethiopia on the fight to eradicate Guinea worm from water supplies…
Restoring sight: In the midst of a pandemic, Nigeria battles to end a painful blinding disease
ADAOBI TRICIA NWAUBANI and NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how the work to continue restoring eyesight has gone on in Nigeria despite disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic…
Quickfacts – 10 facts about the most dangerous diseases you’ve never heard of
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, resources are being sucked away from the fight against a host of debilitating diseases that affect 1.7 billion of the poorest people on the planet, medical experts have warned. On Saturday, charities will mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, seeking to draw attention to […]
WHO launches plan to tackle neglected diseases as COVID-19 strains healthcare
Thomson Reuters Foundation The World Health Organization will on Thursday launch a plan to combat 20 diseases that affect the world’s poorest people, seeking to prevent recent progress being erased by the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare systems. Many of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which range from leprosy to rabies, have been eradicated […]
Forgotten but not gone: COVID-19 focus poses new risks to ‘invisible’ leprosy patients
RANDY MULYANTO and BEH LIH YI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how the coronavirus pandemic has affected those with leprosy…