In 1906, Doctor Emílio Ribas reorganized the Sanitation Service. A campaign to combat trachoma, an ophthalmic disease, was implemented as part of the project. This recent article analyzes this campaign.

The Symposium aims to promote broader reflections about these diseases on the national and international agendas.

This online journal publishes research on all aspects of these forgotten diseases affecting the world’s most neglected people.

Interview with Tara Inniss discusses how racial categorizations continue to form a major part of epidemiological investigation in the Caribbean and elsewhere.

Elaine LaFay discusses how regional assessments raise questions about meanings of tropicality and cultural understandings of tropical diseases.

The workshop is part of the project Policies and Practices of Public Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Historical Perspective.

Bruno Romero Ferreira Miranda describes how the West Indian Company had to deal with a more deadly and persistent opponent than the Portuguese when they arrived in Brazil; namely the innumerous diseases found here.

This publication made by the Centre for Global Health Histories gathers together different types of neglected tropical diseases.

Philip Jan Havik discusses the efforts to research and control sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea during the Colonial Era.