Preaching message of disease control

02 August 2016 - 09:50
By TANYA FARBER

A new report has found that religious leaders should use the sway they have over their flocks to help stamp out Neglected Tropical Diseases. These are a group of tropical infectious diseases, such as soil-transmitted helminthiasis, rabies and dengue fever, that affect about 1.4 billion people across the world in mostly impoverished areas.

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