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U.S., Partners To Continue Fight Against NTDs
"Over a billion people, one in every six people living on this planet, suffer from one or more neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs," a VOA editorial states, noting, "These usually treatable and preventable diseases include schistosomiasis; elephantiasis; trachoma; Chagas disease; river blindness; leprosy; kala-azar, dengue, black fever and other forms of leishmaniasis; and the three most common infections -- the soil-transmitted parasites hookworm, roundworm and whipworm."
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