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Neglected diseases, such as Chagas disease and schistosomiasis, are given a low status in global public health priorities. Yet they affect one billion people, mainly in remote areas, rural slums and conflict zones.
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Opinions and Analysis
Chagas disease: A global challenge
Chagas disease has gone beyond Latin America and, today, is a challenge for non-endemic countries, say José R. Coura and Pedro A. Viñas.
17 July 2010
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Source: Nature
BioMed Analysis: Conventional innovation isn't enough
Innovating for health is about more than drug development. It means new ways of delivering and using existing technologies, says Priya Shetty.
17 June 2010
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Neglected diseases should share diagnostic tools
3 June 2010
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Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
News and Features
Map reveals global threat from the 'other malaria'
A neglected parasite that causes a milder form of malaria is of wide concern, reports the team that has mapped it for the first time.
Drug resistance threatens new sleeping sickness cure
Sleeping sickness parasites can rapidly develop resistance to a drug used in a promising new treatment, say scientists.
29 July 2010
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Polio vaccine 'can prevent type 2 outbreak in Nigeria'
15 July 2010
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‘Door knob' for malaria parasite to enter cells found
29 June 2010
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