OneWorld Health is currently developing medicines for diarrheal diseases, malaria, visceral leishmaniasis and soil-transmitted helminthes (intestinal worms).

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In addition the goal is to reduce and control these diseases: schistosomiasis, river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.

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Relatively new diseases like AIDS get most of the attention, but ancient killers once thought to be under control are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and South America: malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis (also known as dum-dum fever).

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