| Blog of the Week |
| HAITI IS SAYING GOODBYE TO LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS, IN SPITE OF EARTHQUAKE |
| Our teams gave a two-medicine dose to Haitians in our capital city, Port-au-Prince—but most people had no water to swallow the pills. How would we overcome the ongoing cholera outbreak and displacement from the 2010 earthquake to finally rid Haiti of the horribly disfiguring and painful disease called lymphatic filariasis?...read blog |
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| Infographic of the Week |
| HOW A PARASITE CAUSES LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS, KNOWN AS ELEPHANTIASIS |
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| Video of the Week |
| PERSPECTIVES ON NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES AND THE LONDON DECLARATION |
| On January 30, 2012, leaders from across the private sector, nonprofits, and governments gathered in London to announce their support for eliminating 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2020. A year later, the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases spoke with many key leaders in the community to gain their perspectives on progress made and the challenges that remain...view video |
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| Story of the Week |
| LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS: INDUMATI’S STORY |
| Before becoming involved with one of India’s programs that help people with lymphatic filariasis (LF) manage their symptoms, Indumati was one of the millions of LF patients with little hope that her pain, social isolation, and disfigurement would ever improve. A native resident of Orissa, India, Where nearly half of the population has LF, Indumati is a 58-year-old widow and mother of seven...read story |
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