Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Urbanization
A technician of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation inspects an Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Sloth Fever: Latin America's Oropouche Epidemic

by Rômullo José Costa Ataídes

Without global collaboration and action to address root causes, Oropouche fever is likely to continue spreading

Environment
A field ecologist with the USAID-funded PREDICT Ebola Host Project uses mist netting to capture and study bats, an animal host species of the zoonotic Ebola virus.

Eyes on Disease X: Ranking the Next Pandemic

by Jane Fieldhouse, David Wolking, Nistara Randhawa, Timothy Endy, Angel Desai

University of California, Davis has expanded its SpillOver tool to assess the pandemic potential of dangerous pathogens

A boy shows a wound he sustained after a stray dog attacked him, at a rabies clinic in Sanaa, Yemen, on March 2, 2019.
Trade

Digitizing Supply Chains—Down to the Last Mile—to End Neglected Tropical Diseases

by Carla Johnson, Gesa Pellier

Limited visibility in procurement makes eliminating NTDs impossible

Agnes Kalié, a health worker, gives out a drug treatment to prevent against one of the debilitating neglected tropical diseases.
Poverty

Protecting the Health of Displaced People

by Joy Shu'aibu

Employing a "leave no one behind" approach

A black and white cow stands on caked and cracked mud before a small patch of muddy, gray water at a dam near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on January 18, 2020.
Environment

In Parched Zimbabwe, Climate Change Pushes Tsetse to New Areas

by Andrew Mambondiyani

Health experts will monitor tsetse-caused sleeping sickness to stem its spread