Neglected Diseases

The ongoing outbreak poses a low risk to the public, but it signals cracks in our public health infrastructure.

DNDi’s Africa Ambassador Monique Wasunna reflects on her efforts to fight neglected diseases and shares insights on the work ahead, including critical needs donors are neglecting.

By setting up shop in hosts’ tissues, Trypanosoma brucei can constantly change its protective surface coat and evade antibodies for long periods of time.
 

Scientists identify protein and pathway that, if compromised, no longer protect Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from succumbing to viruses they transmit to people.
 

How a menagerie of bacteria, fungi, and parasites silently shapes human health.