What is a “neglected tropical disease”?
Neglected tropical diseases are called that because they occur in the most impoverished populations of the developing world and are thus neglected because their governments cannot afford to treat the people who contract them. They do not normally flourish in areas where there is economic or healthcare support so they are isolated to the remote, rural, urban slums or conflict zones of developing areas of the world. They go mostly unnoticed by the more economically stable countries.
