Neglected Tropical Diseases and the END7 campaign

Dr. Neeraj Mistry, Managing director of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases discusses neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and the END7 campaign with Outbreak News This Week Radio show host Robert Herriman on the Saturday, Mar. 15 show.

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END7 is a campaign to see the end of 7 neglected tropical diseases by 2020. The 7 NTDs are ascariasis, hookworm, lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), onchocerciasis (river blindness), schistosomiasis (bilharzia or “snail fever”), trachoma and trichuriasis (whipworm).

1 in 6 people worldwide, including over half a billion children, have these parasitic and bacterial diseases living and breeding in their bodies.

An integrated treatment approach, known as the rapid-impact package, which treats the seven most common NTDs through a combination of four drugs is supported by the Global Network.

This costs a mere 50¢ to treat and protect one child for one year.

Find out more about the END7 campaign and how you can help, visit their website or the END7 Facebook page

For more infectious disease news and information, visit and “like” the Infectious Disease News Facebook page and the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show page.

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Giardia in Black and White: T-shirts, coffee mugs and other merchandise with a clean, computerized image of a Giardia intestinalis trophozoite

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