Neglected Diseases

Neglected Diseases

Neglected diseases often affect people living in developing countries.

 As a result, pharmaceutical companies have little interest in working to find a cure for these diseases.  Stimulating awareness about the urgent need for new, better treatment and tests for diseases like leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and Chagas and noma  is key to the work of MSF’s Access Campaign and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) of which MSF was a founding partner.

 
May 2023- Dr Muhammad Abubakar Lawal, plastic surgeon operating at the Noma Hospital in Sokoto, Nigeria
Neglected Tropical Diseases

MSF joins noma survivors in celebrating inclusion in WHO neglected tropical diseases list

Article 15 Dec 2023
 
Videos and Photos

Ethiopia: 20 years of responding to two of the world’s most deadly and neglected diseases

25 Sep 2023
Videos and Photos
 
Transforming lives in Mozambique: surgical treatment for patients with neglected diseases in Mogovolas district
Neglected Diseases

Transforming lives in Mozambique: surgical treatment for patients with neglected diseases in Mogovolas district

Press Release 25 Jul 2023
 
From 'Chipatta' to Hope: The Pursuit of an Elephantiasis-Free Life
Neglected Diseases

From 'Chipatta' to Hope: The Pursuit of an Elephantiasis-Free Life

Testimony 7 Jun 2023
 
Noma: "There is ability in disability and there is nothing that we cannot do.”
Neglected Diseases

Noma: "There is ability in disability and there is nothing that we cannot do.”

Testimony 22 May 2023
 
Three survivors of noma, a disease that should no longer exist
Neglected Diseases

Three survivors of noma, a disease that should no longer exist

Article 22 May 2023