However, amoebic dysentery, hydatidosis, toxoplasmosis, typhoid, tuberculosis and visceral leishmaniasis have shown slight increases.

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Indeed, India alone accounts for one-quarter of intestinalworm infections worldwide and more than one-half of all cases ofelephantiasis, leprosy, and visceral leishmaniasis.

However, despite the availability of drugs against amoebic dysentery, hydatidosis, toxoplasmosis, typhoid and visceral leishmaniasis, these diseases are not under control due to the poor state of water, environmental sanitation and related infrastructures.

The epidemiological behaviour of visceral leishmaniasis is cyclic, with regular upsurges over periods that average out at every five years, in parallel to an uptrend from 1980 through to today.

Better scientific knowledge of the specific role of each link in the chain of transmission of visceral leishmaniasis - still involving inconclusive technical discussions - will help shape more effective control actions.

DNDi works with partners in industry, academia and NGOs in a "collaborative, patient's needs-driven, non-profit" manner to develop new treatments for malaria, visceral leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.

Other important activities included the launch in Baghdad, on 12 May, of the UNDP-financed Iraqi Living Conditions Survey by the Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation; creation of the Marshlands Information Network and a national mine-clearance non-governmental organization; support for critical policy development in the areas of human rights, elections, social services and civil society empowerment; and a measles, mumps, rubella vaccination campaign, which has reached 1,458,771 children to date (the rate of reported cases of visceral leishmaniasis has decreased by 55 per cent).