World NTD Day 2021 : efforts to eliminate priority NTDs from afar

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• Alternative Title:
  World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day
• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria.
• Description:
  True to their name, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) seldom receive the attention they warrant.
  
  This group of diseasesexternal icon includes lymphatic filariasis (LF, or elephantiasis), onchocerciasis (river blindness), trachoma (the leading infectious cause of blindness), and Guinea worm disease.
  
  In recent years, intensive efforts from CDC and its partners have helped ensure that hundreds of millions of people no longer live at risk for certain NTDs. Forty countries, territories, and areas have achieved World Health Organization (WHO)’s elimination targets for at least one disease.
  
  In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic threatened to reverse some of this progress and put millions of people in impoverished areas back at risk for infection. Faced with extraordinary challenges—the need for countries to focus on the COVID-19 response, concerns about COVID-19 risks associated with NTD control activities, and limitations on travel—CDC and its partners adapted their work to continue battling NTDs.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anniversaries And Special Events Global Health Neglected Diseases Parasitic Diseases Public Health Tropical Climate
• Source:
  World NTD Day ; World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  World NTD Day ; World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day ; World NTD Day ; World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day
• Genre:
  Webpage
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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