Essays about: "NTD discourse"

Found 1 essay containing the words NTD discourse.

  1. 1. Reducing the ‘Neglect’ in Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Review of the Debate surrounding the Effectiveness of Mass Deworming – A Case Study of Kenya –

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Kim Brigitzer; [2016]
    Keywords : Kenya; Neglected tropical diseases; NTD discourse; mass deworming; soil-transmitted helminths; the ‘Other’; World Health Organization;

    Abstract : Neglected tropical diseases are parasitic and bacterial diseases mainly prevalent in developing countries affecting people living in poverty. The World Health Organization’s human rights-based approach emphasizes the “prevention, control, elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases” through the use of preventative chemotherapy, such as the mass administration of deworming drugs to improve people’s health. READ MORE