It looks like the global health movies you show to first-year Masters of Public Health students.

So many of these neglected tropical diseases are not acute infections like ... the flu or common cold, many are chronic, debilitating conditions that mimic non-communicable diseases ... If somebody has epilepsy, they don\'t think of cysticercosis ... If a child tests poorly in school, the pediatrician or nurse practitioner won\'t think of toxocariasis.

Poverty is seldom evenly distributed across the country. Poverty clusters in pockets. It clusters in northeastern Brazil, it clusters in northern Argentina, it clusters in southern Mexico, it clusters in southwestern China, well, it\'s the same thing in the USA. Poverty is clustered in the American South.

While we were calling them neglected tropical diseases, the \'tropical\' part is probably a misnomer, most of the world\'s neglected tropical diseases are in wealthy countries. It\'s the poor living among the wealthy.