Table 2.

WHO criteria for classifying a condition as a neglected tropical disease (NTD)¹⁶

Disease conditions that disproportionately affect populations living in poverty; and cause important morbidity and mortality – including stigma and discrimination - in such populations, justifying a global response primarily affect populations living in tropical and sub-tropical areas are immediately amenable to broad control, elimination or eradication by applying one or more of the five public health strategies adopted by the Department for Control of NTDs, and/or are relatively neglected by research – i.e., resource allocation is not commensurate with the magnitude of the problem - when it comes to developing new diagnostics, medicines and other control tools