Neglected Tropical Diseases – NTDs – Raising the profile of dengue, rabies, trachoma, Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection), endemic treponematoses, leprosy (Hansen's disease), Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), leishmaniasis (flesh-eating disease), cysticercosis, dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease), echinococcosis, foodborne trematode infections, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis (river blindness), schistosomiasis (bilharziasis) and soil-transmitted helminthiases (roundworm, hookworm and whipworm)