Neglected tropic diseases is a term coined by WHO for the diseases which thrive in the poverty. Neglected tropical diseases affect more than 1 billion people, primarily poor populations living in tropical and subtropical climates.
The list includes dengue, rabies, blinding trachoma, Buruli ulcer, endemic treponematoses (yaws), leprosy (Hansen disease), Chagas disease, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), leishmaniasis, cysticercosis, dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease), echinococcosis, foodborne trematode infections, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis (river blindness), schistosomiasis (bilharziasis), soil-transmitted helminthiases (intestinal worms)
