Neglected Tropical Diseases in Latin America

Posted on August 6, 2014 • Filed under: Latin America Health, TRAVEL

coha.org reported Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a collection of chronic, bacterial, parasitic, and viral diseases that have remained largely unnoticed and uncured by the global community.[1] NTDs affect the lives of more than 1.5 billion people worldwide and cause, on average, the death of more than 500,000 people each year, most of whom live in extreme poverty. [2] In fact, NTDs have a strong hand in the vicious cycle of poverty, in which the impoverished are more susceptible to disease, and the diseased are more likely to become impoverished. Read Article

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