Neglected Tropical Diseases

More than 1.4 billion people around the world are infected with at least one NTD, but because of their low mortality rate and because mainly poor and marginalized people are affected, these diseases don’t get much attention on the global stage. But it seems that slowly it is recognized that controlling and eliminating NTDs is critical to ending extreme poverty. NTDs are seen as “indicator diseases” for underdevelopment because their occurrence is a sign of population groups and regions that have been particularly “neglected”. Thus the NTDs are included in the SDGs. But what has to be undertaken to fight NTDs successfully?