Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of preventable and treatable diseases that affect about 1.65 billion people around the world.
The World Health Organization recognises the twenty-one diseases below as neglected tropical diseases.
- Bilharzia (schistosomiasis)
- Buruli ulcer
- Chagas disease
- Dengue and Chikungunya
- Echinococcosis
- Elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis)
- Foodborne trematodiases
- Guinea worm disease
- Intestinal worms (soil-transmitted helminths)
- Leishmaniasis cutaneous and visceral
- Leprosy
- Mycetoma
- Noma
- Rabies
- River blindness (onchocerciasis)
- Scabies
- Sleeping sickness
- Snakebite envenoming
- Taeniasis and cysticercosis
- Trachoma
- Yaws