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.

 
14 MSF trucks loaded with tents and winter kits crossing into northwest Syria [Abdulmonam Eassa/MS]
Access to Healthcare

MSF aid convoy in relief of earthquake victims enters northwest Syria

Press Release 20 Feb 2023
 
Neglected Diseases

Noma takes step towards inclusion on WHO list of neglected tropical diseases

Press Release 3 Feb 2023
 
Neglected Diseases

MSF calls for increased global investment ahead of World Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Day on 30 January 2023

Press Release 27 Jan 2023
 
MSF lab manager Mercy Oluya performs a kala azar diagnostic test MSF laboratory in Abdurafi May 2018
Access to medicines

MSF warns that reduced funding for Neglected Tropical Diseases could be devastating

Press Release 23 Jun 2022
 
Neglected Diseases

Overcoming neglect: Finding ways to manage and control Neglected Tropical Diseases

Reports 28 Jan 2021
 
2018 MSF team examines a snakebite wound on a patient’s foot in Abdurafi, Ethiopia.
Access to Healthcare

No more neglected diseases, no more neglected patients

Press Release 28 Jan 2021