Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a report, Fighting Neglect, that charts MSF's 25 years of experience in diagnosing and treating Chagas disease, sleeping sickness, and kala azar in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Caucasus. The report examines
past, present, and future management of the diseases, and shows that
treatment is possible, even with existing diagnostic tools and medicines.
However, the report concludes that "in order to break the vicious cycle that leaves tropical diseases neglected, existing programmes which diagnose and treat patients need to be expanded, and medical research needs to develop simpler, more effective tools."
Médecins Sans Frontières is an international association composed mainly of doctors and health-sector workers who provide assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters, and to victims of armed conflict. MSF functions irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions.
past, present, and future management of the diseases, and shows that
treatment is possible, even with existing diagnostic tools and medicines.
However, the report concludes that "in order to break the vicious cycle that leaves tropical diseases neglected, existing programmes which diagnose and treat patients need to be expanded, and medical research needs to develop simpler, more effective tools."
Médecins Sans Frontières is an international association composed mainly of doctors and health-sector workers who provide assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters, and to victims of armed conflict. MSF functions irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions.
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