Neglected Tropical Disease

Tanti Asrianti, M.Kes

 What is Neglected Tropical Disease?
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of parasitic
and bacterial diseases that cause substantial illness for more
than one billion people globally.

Affecting the world's poorest people, NTDs impair physical and

cognitive development, contribute to mother and child illness
and death, make it difficult to farm or earn a living, and limit
productivity in the workplace.

As a result, NTDs trap the poor in a cycle of poverty

and disease

(Source: CDC, 2017).

 Global Fact about NTDs (CDC, 2017)

100% of low-income countries are affected by at least five neglected tropical diseases
simultaneously

Worldwide, 149 countries and territories are affected by at least one neglected
tropical disease (NTD)

NTDs are a major cause of disease burden, resulting in approximately 57 million

years of life lost due to premature disability and death

Individuals are often afflicted with more than one parasite or infection

Treatment cost for most NTD mass drug administration programs is estimated at less than
US fifty cents per person per year
 Countries affected by NTDs by income group

 More than 70% of

countries and territories
High-income
group, 10% Low-income
affected by neglected
Upper middle-
group, 41% tropical diseases are low-
income group, 17%
income and low middle-
income countries
 100% of low-income
countries are affected by at
Lower middle-
income group, 32%
least 5 neglected tropical
diseases
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hilang

Karakteristik NTDs
(DEPKES RI, 2012)
Stigma masyarakat
sering merugikan
Metode penanganan program
sudah ada penanggulangannya,
karena cenderung
menyembunyikan kasus.
 Neglected tropical diseases (WHO, 2018)

Dengue Rabies Trachoma Buruli ulcer Yaws Leprosy

Human African Dracunculiasis

Taeniasis and
Chagas disease trypanosomiasis Leishmaniases (guinea-worm Echinococcosis
neurocysticercosis
(sleeping sickness) disease)

Foodborne Onchocerciasis Soil-transmitted

Lymphatic filariasis Schistosomiasis Mycetoma
trematodiases (river blindness) helminthiases

New added to NTDs (WHO, 2017): chromoblastomycosis and other deep mycoses, scabies and other ectoparasites
and snakebite envenoming