Espinal, Marcos Kruk, Margaret E Mohamed, Madame Cisse Mariama Wainwright, Emily
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Addressing neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is critical to achieving universal healthcare and the Sustainable Development Goals. Significant strides are being made to expand NTD programs, but these programs still need to be fully incorporated into national governance, financing, planning and service delivery structures. The World Health Organizat...
Molyneux, David H Asamoa-Bah, Anarfi Fenwick, Alan Savioli, Lorenzo Hotez, Peter
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The history of the neglected tropical disease movement is seen through the lens of authors who worked during the last 4 decades in different roles and in different settings, from Western-based laboratories to clinical roles in endemic countries and in critical policy roles in the World Health Organization (WHO). The authors seek to identify key pla...
Boisson, Sophie Wohlgemuth, Leah Yajima, Aya Peralta, Genandrialine Obiageli, Nebe Matendechero, Sultani Baayenda, Gilbert Seife, Fikre Hamilton, Helen Chase, Claire
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Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are essential for the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The forthcoming NTD road map ‘Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030’ encourages cross-sectoral collaboration and includes cross-cutting targets on WA...
Tidman, Rachel Abela-Ridder, Bernadette de Castañeda, Rafael Ruiz
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Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of diseases that continue to affect >1 billion people, with these diseases disproportionately impacting vulnerable populations and territories. Climate change is having an increasing impact on public health in tropical and subtropical areas and across the world and can affect disease distributi...
Malecela, Mwelecele N Ducker, Camilla
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Bradley, Mark Taylor, Rachel Jacobson, Julie Guex, Morgane Hopkins, Adrian Jensen, Julie Leonard, Lynn Waltz, Johannes Kuykens, Luc Sow, Papa Salif
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Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are targeted for global control or elimination. Recognising that the populations most in need of medicines to target NTDs are those least able to support and sustain them financially, the pharmaceutical industry created mechanisms for donating medicines and expertise to affected countries through partnerships with...
Mbabazi, P S Del Pino, S Ducker, C Dean, L Broekkamp, H Prasetyanti, W Jacobson, J Krentel, A Seunik, M Bustinduy, A L
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Limited attention to tackling neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) through the lenses of gender, equity, ethnicity and human rights inadvertently undermines progress due to the exclusion of subgroups in populations living in conditions of vulnerability. Supporting national NTD programmes to make equity analysis part of their routine activities and re...
Huang, Xiao Xian Toure, Hapsatou Biswas, Gautam
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The adequacy of resources for programme implementation is a premise for achieving the targets set in the road map for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) 2021–2030. During the decade 2010–2020, international health aid and pharmaceutical donations have driven progress to control and eliminate NTDs. In the next decade, domestic financing will be crit...
Brooker, Simon J Ziumbe, Kundai Negussu, Nebiyu Crowley, Siobhan Hammami, Mona
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Countries have seen substantial disruptions to usual health services related to coronavirus disease 2019 and these are likely to have immediate and long-term indirect effects on many disease control programmes, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The pandemic has highlighted the usefulness of mathematical modelling to understand the impac...
Addiss, David G Kienast, Yvonne Lavery, James V
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The global movement to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is grounded in an ethic of social justice, solidarity and health equity. NTD programmes deliver significant health benefits in socially complex environments characterized by poverty and economic disparity. We used two ethics frameworks—principlism and Upshur's public he...
