Nigeria continues to suffer Africa's biggest burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs, otherwise known as diseases of poverty, despite improving treatment coverage of the diseases between 2015 and 2017.
According to a new table ranking, Nigeria improved its average score for treatment against the five most common NTDs (calculated via a statistical tool called the geometric mean, which is commonly used in social sciences) between 2015 and 2017 from 15 to 60.
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