Description
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are diseases of poverty that affect impoverished, marginalised and neglected populations, who live in impoverished and marginalised regions of NTD-endemic countries. The empowerment of patient populations affected by NTDs can be an effective tool to fight neglect and lobby governments and funding agencies to put these diseases and affected patient populations on political agendas. This paper examines how, over the past fifteen years, neglected patient populations in Latin America have created new national and transnational places to transcend fragmented patient landscapes, connect forces across endemic regions and countries, and unify their voices to put their cause on national and international political agendas in global health.
