Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs

Neglected Tropical Diseases

Neglected tropical diseases are a bunch of parasitic and bacterial infectious diseases that affect more than including one billion people and cost developing economies billions of dollars every year, 836 million children. They are as often as possible clustered together topographically and people are frequently afflicted with more than one parasite or contamination. Effective control can be achieved when selected public health approaches are combined and conveyed locally. Intercessions are guided by the local epidemiology and the availability of appropriate measures to identify, anticipate and control diseases. Numerous neglected tropical diseases can be anticipated, eliminated or even annihilated with improved access to existing safe and cost-effective devices. Control depends on simple mediations that can be carried out by non-specialists also.