Table 2 WHO list of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)

• Buruli ulcer

• Mycetoma, chromoblastomycosis, and other deep mycoses

• Chagas disease

• Dengue and chikungunya

• Onchocerciasis (river blindness)

• Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease)

• Rabies

• Echinococcosis

• Scabies and other ectoparasites

• Foodborne trematodiases

• Schistosomiasis

• Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)

• Soil-transmitted helminthiases

• Snakebite envenoming

• Leishmaniasis

• Taeniasis/Cysticercosis

• Leprosy (Hansen’s disease)

• Trachoma

• Lymphatic filariasis

• Yaws (endemic treponematoses)