The management of Leishmania donova ni (LD), responsible for fatal visceral leishmaniasis (VL), faces increasing challenges due to rising drug-unresponsiveness, leading to increasing treatment ...

India is on track to be declared free of Kala Azar by 2024, achieving elimination targets set by WHO after decades of efforts against the deadly disease.

But now, thanks to a combination of non-profit researchers and African public-health workers, there are signs of progress ...

We've been treating visceral leishmaniasis for decades in Ethiopia. People infected with this neglected tropical disease will have their tissue attacked by a parasite, which is transmitted through the ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

In the most remote places in the world, people are daily battling diseases that many people may never have heard of. Called neglected tropical diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially ...

It could apply for the sandfly and the parasite that they transmit [that causes] Leishmania, [and] the kissing bugs and the trypanosome parasites. And you could continue with all the vectors that ...