From blindness to sight – celebrating Malawi's progress on World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day
Eliminating diseases has a knock-on effect, boosting health, education and employment and transforming lives and communities
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Eliminating diseases has a knock-on effect, boosting health, education and employment and transforming lives and communities
In October, Malawi became the first nation in southern Africa to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem.
They affect billions of people worldwide with severe health consequences, yet are not well-known. What are these neglected diseases and why is climate change making them worse?
It’s Christmas — a time for parties, presents and pity for those children spending the holidays in institutional care. It makes government’s plan for the mass deinstitutionalisation of children seem miraculous. But, instead, in an uncanny recreation of the first Christmas, it may leave many children out in the cold.
Ending neglected tropical diseases within our lifetime is possible. Beating kala-azar is possible.