Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Impact on Global Health and Development

Introduction to the Neglected Tropical Diseases: the Ancient Afflictions of Stigma and Poverty -- "The Unholy Trinity": the Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections Ascariasis, Trichuriasis, and Hookworm Infection -- Schistosomiasis (Snail Fever) and the Food-borne Trematodiases -- Elephantiasis: Lymphatic Filariasis, Endemic Nonfilarial Elephantiasis (Podoconiosis), and Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm) -- The Blinding Neglected Tropical Diseases: Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) and Trachoma -- The Mycobacterial Infections: Buruli Ulcer and Leprosy -- The Kinetoplastid Infections: Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness), American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease), and the Leishmaniases -- The Urban Neglected Tropical Diseases: Leptospirosis, Dengue and Zika, and Rabies -- The Neglected Tropical Diseases of North America -- Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, and a New WHO Roadmap (2021-2030) -- Future Trends in Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Antipoverty Vaccines -- The Newest NTDs and a Plea to "Repair the World" -- Appendix: What Are the Neglected Tropical Diseases?

"EPI The age of hypocrisy has been succeeded by that of indifference, which is worse, for indifference corrupts and appeases: it kills the spirit before it kills the body. It has been stated before, it bears repeating: the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference./ EPI . EPI It is a trite saying that one half the world knows not how the other lives. Who can say what sores might be healed, what hurts solved, were the doings of each half of the world's inhabitants understood and appreciated by the other?/ EPI"--