Survey Detects Substantial Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Skin Diseases in Rural Ethiopia
A population-based survey in rural Ethiopia found a 9.1 percent prevalence of skin diseases, with cutaneous leishmaniasis widespread but formal ...
Tag: neglected tropical diseases
Systematic Review Finds High Bias in AI Models for Tropical Diseases
A systematic review reveals that most artificial intelligence models developed for leprosy, leishmaniasis, and schistosomiasis face high risk of bias ...
Leprosy Patients Face Ongoing Risk of Eye Disability Despite Completing Multidrug Therapy
A viewpoint in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases emphasizes that completing multidrug therapy does not eliminate the risk of leprosy-related ocular ...
Digital Workflow Cuts Health Worker Payment Times in Neglected Disease Campaigns
A study in Nigeria found that integrating routine health data software with real-time bank verification shortened campaign payment processing from ...
Unequal Control Over Research Agendas Weakens Neglected Tropical Disease Science
A published viewpoint argues that shifting funding and agenda-setting authority to endemic nations is essential to making neglected tropical disease ...
Global Burden of Sand Flea Disease Estimated at 575,000 Disability Years
A new prevalence-based modelling study reveals that tungiasis causes up to 575,298 disability-adjusted life-years annually across endemic countries, driven primarily ...
Social Sciences Expose Hidden Inequities Shaping Neglected Tropical Diseases
A special collection in the International Journal for Equity in Health shows that stigma, structural violence, gender, and fragile health ...
Single-dose albendazole falters against whipworm in persistent Kenyan transmission foci
A Kenyan study of school-age children found single-dose albendazole met World Health Organization egg reduction benchmarks against roundworm at first ...
Machines Join the Hunt for New Schistosomiasis Drugs
A new review argues that machine learning can speed the search for schistosomiasis drugs only if paired with standardized, high-throughput ...
Snakebites Hit 1 in 20 Villagers Near Ghana’s Kakum Forest, Survey Finds
A household survey of 8,518 people in 18 communities fringing Ghana's Kakum Conservation Area found a lifetime snakebite occurrence of ...
Hookworm Prevalence Fell Sharply in Rural China After Integrated Control Pilot
A repeated cross-sectional study in six rural Chinese villages found hookworm prevalence fell from 4.76% to 1.06% after a one-year ...
Zimbabwe Parasite Resurgence After Three-Year Treatment Pause, National Survey Finds
A nationwide survey of more than 11,000 Zimbabweans found schistosomiasis prevalence and heavy-intensity infections rose above elimination thresholds after preventive ...
Placental Schistosomiasis in Gabon May Be Undercounted, Letter Warns
A letter to the editor argues that a single-day urine microscopy approach likely underestimated placental schistosomiasis prevalence in a Gabonese ...
Study Protocol Tests Thermotherapy for Skin Leishmaniasis in Ethiopian Primary Care
A registered implementation research protocol in BMC Primary Care details how radiofrequency thermotherapy for cutaneous leishmaniasis will be tested in ...
Computational Vaccine Designed to Target Tapeworm Infections in Livestock
Scientists have computationally designed a multi-epitope chimeric vaccine candidate against Taenia tapeworms in livestock, with all results so far limited ...
Scoping review maps WASH evidence gaps in soil-transmitted helminth control
A scoping review of 197 studies finds substantial WASH and STH evidence but identifies persistent gaps in food chain pathways, ...
Explainable AI Could Help Diagnose Neglected Tropical Diseases in Darker Skin, Review Finds
A structured narrative review finds that explainable AI techniques may improve transparency in diagnosing skin-manifesting neglected tropical diseases, while deep ...
Geostatistical analysis of baseline prevalence and treatment history drastically reduces the cost of soil-transmitted helminth impact assessment surveys
A geostatistical framework combining baseline prevalence data, environmental covariates and treatment history cut the cost of soil-transmitted helminth impact surveys ...
Chemical antibodies show promise against viruses and neglected tropical diseases
A new review evaluates how short synthetic nucleic acid molecules called aptamers could improve diagnosis and treatment of viral and ...
Facial cleanliness, environmental factors, and the burden of trachoma in a pastoral conflict area of Tiaty East, Baringo County, Kenya
A cross-sectional survey in Tiaty East, Kenya, found trachoma prevalence near the WHO elimination threshold alongside very poor facial cleanliness, ...
