“On Wednesday, July 25, the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases [NTDs] co-chaired a panel at the [XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012)], addressing the link between NTDs and HIV/AIDS,” the network’s “End the Neglect” blog reports. During the session, titled “Effective Solutions to Combat HIV: Increasing Evidence of the Impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases on HIV Transmission and Disease Progression,” “members of the panel presented current research that has been conducted in Uganda and Brazil suggesting pathogenic links between NTDs such as schistosomiasis, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis and HIV transmission and disease progression,” the blog notes (7/26).