Leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease, has strong but complex links with poverty. The
burden of leishmaniasis falls disproportionately on the poorest segments of the global …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for an integrated response, the
kind that has defined Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) efforts in the past decade. NTD …

Conclusions Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are ancient diseases of poverty that
impose a devastating human, social and economic burden on more than 1 billion people …

Among parasitic diseases, morbidity and mortality caused by leishmaniasis are surpassed
only by malaria and lymphatic filariasis. However, estimation of the leishmaniasis disease …

Combination therapy for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis has increasingly been
advocated as a way to increase treatment efficacy and tolerance, reduce treatment duration …

During the past decade, liposomal amphotericin B has been used with increasing frequency
to treat visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The World Health Organization convened a workshop to …

Drugs remain the most important tool for the treatment and control of both visceral and
cutaneous leishmaniasis. Although there have been several advances in the past decade …

The leishmaniases are protozoan infections that are among the neglected tropical diseases
(NTDs). Over one billion people are at risk of these diseases in virtually all continents. These …

The leishmaniases are a group of four vector-borne neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with
1.6 billion people in some 100 countries at risk. They occur in certain eco-epidemiological …

Background Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a major health problem in developing countries.
The untreated disease is fatal, available treatment is expensive and often toxic, and drug …