GC: n

S: WHO – http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/en/ (29.11.2013); CDC – http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/ntd/ (last access: 5 November 2013).

N: 1. Neglected tropical diseases (NTD) are a group of infectious diseases that are the source of tremendous suffering because of their disfiguring, debilitating, and sometimes deadly impact.
2. They are called neglected because they have been largely wiped out in the more developed parts of the world and persist only in the poorest, most marginalized communities and conflict areas.
3. Affecting the world’s poorest people, NTDs impair physical and cognitive development, contribute to mother and child illness and death, make it difficult to farm or earn a living, and limit productivity in the workplace. As a result, NTDs trap the poor in a cycle of poverty and disease.

S: CDC – http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/ntd/ (last access: 5 November 2013)

SYN: NTD

S: CDC – http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/ntd/ (last access: 5 November 2013)

CR: African trypanosomiasis, Buruli ulcer, Chagas disease, dengue, filariasis, leishmaniasis, leprosy, rabies, trachoma, treponematosis.