Description
Book SynopsisPowerful stories of the debilitating effects of neglected tropical diseases throughout the world, highlighting the successes and challenges of those fighting to eliminate them. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over one billion of the world's poorest people. More than 170,000 people die from NTDs each year, and many more suffer from blindness, disability, disfigurement, cognitive impairment, and stunted growth. Yet NTDs are treatable and preventable, and the annual cost of treatment is incredibly low. In Under the Big Tree, public health leader Ellen Agler and award-winning writer Mojie Crigler tell the moving stories of those struggling with these diseases and the life-saving work that can beand has beendone to combat NTDs. They introduce readers to people from all walks of lifefrom car washers in Lake Victoria and surgeons on motorbikes to under-resourced local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and Big Pharma scientistsas they chronicle what has been called the largest
Table of ContentsForeword, by Bill Gates
Preface, by William C. Campbell
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Crisis and Collaboration
Chapter 2. Modern Approaches to Ancient Diseases
Chapter 3. Big Consequences from Small Things
Chapter 4. Empowerment and Humility
Chapter 5. Worms, Maps, and Money
Chapter 6. A New Normal
Chapter 7. Stone Soup
Chapter 8. Unfrozen Moment
Chapter 9. Strengthening Health Systems
Chapter 10. The Last Twenty Centimeters
Chapter 11. Homegrown Philanthropy
Acknowledgments
Note on Sources
Bibliography
Index
