NTDs have blinded, disabled, disfigured and killed their victims for centuries.

几个世纪以来，国家结核控制规划使受害者致盲、致残、死亡。

Nonetheless, most NTDs are frequently preventable or treatable, often with low-cost medications.

尽管如此，大多数的热带病通常是预防或治疗的，通常使用低成本的药物。

Furthermore, NTDs undermine the future of both the affected individuals and their communities.

此外，的热带病破坏了受影响个人及其社区的未来。

NTDs are devastating both to those suffer from them and to their communities.

NTD不仅危害病人，也危害病人所处的社区。

Neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs, are maladies of the poorest of the poor.

的热带病是穷人中最贫穷的人的疾病。

As of 2012, the USAID NTD program has supported the delivery of 820 million treatments globally.

截止2012年，美国国际开发署的NTD项目在全球范围内为8.2亿次治疗提供了帮助。