Maintaining neglected tropical disease programmes during pandemics

Maintaining neglected tropical disease programmes during pandemics

Neglected tropical diseases comprise 20 communicable diseases of different pathogenic origins endemic to tropical and subtropical regions. These diseases disproportionately affect the world's poorest and most marginalized populations.1 The global burden of neglected tropical diseases is devasta...

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Published in:Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 99; no. 6; pp. 473 - 474
Main Authors: Alswang, Jared M, Gutierrez, Alexis L, Sadler, Samantha J, Norheim, Ole F
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Geneva World Health Organization 01-06-2021
Subjects:
Care and treatment
Casualties
Communicable diseases
Developing countries
Disease control
Disease management
Disease prevention
Ebola virus
Economic impact
Epidemics
Global health
Health services
Impact analysis
Inequality
Infectious diseases
Infrastructure
International agreements
LDCs
Malaria
Pandemics
Pathogens
Poverty
Prioritizing
Public health
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Treatment programs
Tropical diseases
West Africa
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Summary:Neglected tropical diseases comprise 20 communicable diseases of different pathogenic origins endemic to tropical and subtropical regions. These diseases disproportionately affect the world's poorest and most marginalized populations.1 The global burden of neglected tropical diseases is devastating, as it affects the lives and economies of over 1.6 billion people. Fortunately, in the last decade, neglected tropical diseases have begun receiving global public health attention. Two movements prioritizing treatment for such diseases were launched in 2012: the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases and the World Health Organization's (WHO) Accelerating work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases: a roadmap for implementation.2 These two international agreements have helped shift the global perception of such diseases from irremediable casualties of poverty to unacceptable manifestations of global inequalities. The World Bank's Disease control priorities in developing countries identifies mass drug administration, vector management and early detection and treatment programmes as having high economic impact, and therefore as priority approaches to attenuating neglected tropical disease burden in low-resource settings.
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ISSN:0042-9686
1564-0604
DOI:10.2471/BLT.20.269464