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Editorial Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Catholic World Peter J. Hotez1,2* 1 Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 2 Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America Roughly one-quarter of the world’s most Caribbean region, led by Brazil and day, several Catholic charities are making common neglected tropical diseases and almost Mexico (the most populous Catholic coun- significant contributions to global public all of the cases of Chagas disease occur in the tries with 146 million and 123 million health, including efforts to promote ‘‘de- Catholic majority countries of Africa, Asia, and Catholics each, respectively), followed by worming’’, i.e., mass drug administration Latin America. This finding highlights new the Philippines, as the only Asian country for human intestinal helminth infections. opportunities to lift the poorest Catholics in on the list (70 million), and the European Catholic Relief Services has assisted poor developing countries out of poverty. nations of Italy and France. Four sub- and vulnerable populations for over 60 The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) Saharan African countries are listed in years [12,13], with specific efforts to are the most common infections of the Table 1, including the Democratic Repub- provide deworming treatments for world’s poorest people living in developing lic of Congo (DRC) with 30 million school-aged children in Benin [14], Ghana countries. Through their impact on child Catholi