Listening Tour: Naming Neglected Tropical Diseases

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August 23rd, 2018 The diseases that we now refer to as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) can be pretty hard to pronounce. However, they haven’t always been lumped together as neglected tropical diseases. On the latest episode of Listening Tour, we hear a story from Alan Fenwick, founder of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, on why and…

August 23rd, 2018

The diseases that we now refer to as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) can be pretty hard to pronounce. However, they haven’t always been lumped together as neglected tropical diseases. On the latest episode of Listening Tour, we hear a story from Alan Fenwick, founder of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, on why and how the NTD community decided to start working closer together and calling these diseases neglected tropical diseases.

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​Alan speaking at a learning day at the London Natural Museum of History's Darwin Exhibit.
​Alan in 2013 during the END Fund Board Learning Day at the London Natural Museum of History’s Darwin Exhibit.