Neglected Tropical Diseases and Other Infectious Diseases Affecting the Heart. The NET-Heart Project: Rationale and Design
Introduction: Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of infections that are prevalent in many of the tropical and sub-tropical developing countries where poverty is rampant.NTDs have remained largely unnoticed in the global health agenda.There is a substantial gap between the burden of disease for NTDs in cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and r