By IDSE News Staff
Public health efforts around the world have made remarkable progress in tackling neglected tropical diseases, such as river blindness, according to a new report by the World Health Organization. An estimated 1 billion people received treatment for these diseases in 2015 alone.
These tropical diseases blind, maim, disfigure and debilitate hundreds of millions of people in urban slums and in the poorest parts of the world. Once widely prevalent, these neglected diseases are now