• ESPEN, which is a new partnership to help African countries reduce the burden of NTDs, will provide national NTDs with technical and fundraising support to help them control and eliminate NTDs in Nigeria and the rest of the African continent. (thisdaylive.com)
  • The World Health Organisation estimated that more than one billion people including more than 500 million children are affected by NTDs of which 40 per cent live in the African region and Nigeria accounts for 25 per cent of the African burden. (thisdaylive.com)
  • Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, who is the head of the Nigerian delegation to the 69th WHA called on African Ministers of Health to work together in bringing NTDs into the health agenda, create awareness around it and ensure that it is no longer neglected. (thisdaylive.com)
  • Adewole contended that "NTDs is a disease of the poor and such efforts at reducing the burden must include poverty reduction" he therefore called on his colleagues to take ownership of ESPEN, put it at the front burner and bring it under a robust domestic financing. (thisdaylive.com)
  • Moeti added that "the NTDs are a group of infections that place a constant and heavy burden primarily on the poorest, most vulnerable communities in the world most of which are located in Africa. (thisdaylive.com)
  • The Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) country office is committed to managing and reducing the burden of NTDs. (who.int)
  • We map the prevalence and assess the burden of NTDs across the country. (who.int)
  • We work to raise community awareness of NTDs and promote social mobilization to support prevention, control and elimination of these diseases. (who.int)
  • In a recent editorial by Hotez and colleagues in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), "What constitutes an NTD? (plos.org)
  • The exclusion of noma from NTDs constitutes this preventable childhood disease as a neglected neglected disease. (plos.org)
  • Although noma is the quintessential neglected tropical disease (NTD), noma is not included in lists of NTDs and remains a neglected-neglected tropical disease. (plos.org)
  • The purpose of this article is to support the inclusion of noma with Neglected Tropical Diseases, especially by PLOS NTDs. (plos.org)
  • The integration of noma with NTDs could improve awareness about noma and target investments in research regarding its etiology, diagnosis, and treatment leading to prevention, early detection, and eradication of this preventable childhood disease that affects the world's most vulnerable children. (plos.org)
  • Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of infectious diseases that are endemic in a number of developing countries including countries in the African Region. (who.int)
  • Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) predominantly affect vulnerable and marginalized populations in tropical and subtropical areas and globally affect more than one billion people. (bvsalud.org)
  • In Guinea , the burden of NTDs is estimated to be >7.5 disability-adjusted life years per million inhabitants. (bvsalud.org)
  • Currently the Guinea NTDs master plan (2017-2020) has identified eight diseases as public health problems onchocerciasis , lymphatic filariasis , trachoma , schistosomiasis and soil -transmitted helminthiasis , leprosy , human African trypanosomiasis and Buruli ulcer . (bvsalud.org)
  • In this review we discuss the past and the current case burden of the priority NTDs in Guinea , highlight the major milestones and discuss current and future areas of focus for achieving the 2030 target outlined by the World Health Organization . (bvsalud.org)
  • Major depressive disorder (MDD) associated with chronic neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has been identified as a significant and overlooked contributor to overall disease burden. (dndi.org)
  • Onchocerciasis is one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Collectively, the NTDs impose disease burdens similar to those of HIV and Malaria. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • At the same time, it will generate good case studies in economic impact assessment of NTDs to illustrate how research on infectious diseases of poverty can accelerate progress towards Universal Health Coverage and the SDGs. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners, we are working towards the goal of sustainable elimination of some of the most devastating Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) as public health problems in some of the most underserved regions of the world by 2030. (bayer.com)
  • NTDs are preventable and treatable diseases that place a heavy burden on the world's poorest populations. (bayer.com)
  • That is why we partner with the WHO and other organizations to eliminate NTDs through better understanding of disease burdens, socio-cultural contexts and the varied obstacles to healthcare access. (bayer.com)
  • Dr Kebede is an epidemiologist and a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellow in Public Health and Tropical Medicine, interested in the epidemiology and control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), with a focus on spatial epidemiology and operational research. (bsms.ac.uk)
  • Kebede is particularly interested in the design, implementation of large scale studies to map the distribution of diseases and evaluation of interventions for prevention, control and potential elimination of NTDs. (bsms.ac.uk)
  • Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) continue to hobble emerging economies. (ifpma.org)
  • You may not be familiar, however, with schistosomiasis, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis or trachoma, which fall under the umbrella of " neglected tropical diseases " (or NTDs for short). (discovermagazine.com)
  • Mortality linked to NTDs is often lower than other diseases, but Basáñez states they can lead to a huge burden of disability, which in turn impacts economies. (discovermagazine.com)
  • There are 179 countries across the globe that have reported at least one case of NTDs in 2021, but the disease burden is concentrated in just 16 countries. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The reasons why NTDs are neglected are complex. (discovermagazine.com)
  • South Sudan has a high burden - among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa - of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). (crownagents.com)
  • The main NTDs prevalent in South Sudan include lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis (bilharzia), soiltransmitted helminths (STH), onchocerciasis, trachoma, leishmaniasis and Guinea-worm disease. (crownagents.com)
  • In addition, all BCC materials targeted a specific disease or behaviour, which is against evidence that shows that NTD messages integrated with sound WASH practices can reduce the burden of various NTDs that affect the country. (crownagents.com)
  • Malnutrition makes the South-East Asian population particularly vulnerable to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) alongside emerging infectious diseases from arbovirus infections, dengue, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, and the continuing concern of a pandemic influenza outbreak. (eurekalert.org)
  • Incorporating a Rapid-Impact Package for Neglected Tropical Diseases with Programs for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. (cdc.gov)
  • These three helminths infect more than two billion people worldwide, and the disease burden might approach that of malaria [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • 9 Malaria is the most important parasitic infection of humans and a scourge for millennia, but the burden of malaria infection in pregnancy and the detrimental effects on the health of mothers and their infants were not described in detail until early in the 20th century. (glowm.com)
  • Despite substantial progress in recent years, which has seen reductions in deaths from HIV and malaria and an increase in tuberculosis treatment coverage, the South-East Asia region continues to bear a significant proportion of the communicable disease burden worldwide. (eurekalert.org)
  • Covid-19 has disrupted the control of other infectious diseases in myriad ways, hindering routine vaccination programs, impeding the distribution of bed nets against malaria, and reducing TB services, among others. (eurekalert.org)
  • Vitor Inhane, a nurse responsible for surveillance in Bijagos Region, was studying 21 severe cases of malaria when he tested for other diseases that have similar signs and symptoms to malaria. (cdc.gov)
  • This was made known at the launch of the Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ESPEN) by WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) at the ongoing World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland. (thisdaylive.com)
  • Speaking, WHO's Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matchidiso Moeti, said the directorate would provide the relevant data, expertise and financial resources required to accelerate the fight against these diseases. (thisdaylive.com)
  • Hotez PJ, Kamath A. Neglected Tropical Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Review of Their Prevalence, Distribution, and Disease Burden. (cdc.gov)
  • Up to 90% of the total disease burden is believed to occur in Africa.2 Some people are even affected by more than one NTD (Figure 1). (who.int)
  • Africa accounts for nearly 40% (400 million people) of the global burden. (who.int)
  • Dr Malecela served as Director of the Office of the Regional Director for Africa in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo and then as Director of WHO Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases Control at WHO's Headquarters in Geneva. (who.int)
  • The COMBAT project: controlling and progressively minimizing the burden of vector-borne animal trypanosomosis in Africa. (fao.org)
  • A medical doctor by training, Dr Pizarro became the first CEO of Solthis from 2007 until 2019, an international health organization dedicated to increasing access to care for HIV, maternal health, and other infectious diseases in West Africa. (dndi.org)
  • Africa carries the bulk of the disease burden with over 99% of infected people residing in 31 African countries. (nri.org)
  • Leptospirosis is a neglected emerging infectious disease with high burden in Africa. (bvsalud.org)
  • Trachoma the neglected tropical diseases 2021-2030 roadmap, causes about 1.4% of all blindness worldwide ( 5 ). (who.int)
  • Sanofi-aventis has agreed to renew its support for the WHO program to eliminate sleeping sickness, and its support for Buruli ulcer, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis for the next five years. (disabled-world.com)
  • This continued support will ensure that necessary resources will be available also to move forward in combating leishmaniasis, Buruli ulcer and Chagas disease. (disabled-world.com)
  • Bayer has started discussions with WHO on how to evolve their current commitment to fight sleeping sickness and Chagas disease. (disabled-world.com)
  • We focus on eliminating African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease as well as taeniasis. (bayer.com)
  • We will continue supporting WHO in fighting African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease. (bayer.com)
  • As the only manufacturer of the treatments Nifurtimox and Suramin, recognized by the WHO as essential medicines, our initial focus has been on fighting the diseases these medicines treat like Chagas disease and African sleeping sickness (HAT). (bayer.com)
  • Neglected tropical diseases like Chagas and dengue fever impact more than 200 million people across the globe. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Bugs infected with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi can cause Chagas disease, which mainly spreads in rural areas of Latin America where poverty is widespread. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The characteristic residual scarring (inactive CL) following almost all cases of active cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) has recently been recognised as part of the CL disease spectrum due to its lasting psychosocial impact. (dndi.org)
  • Leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease that is caused by protozoan parasites from the genus Leishmania, is not well understood. (healthinternetwork.org)
  • Visceral Leishmaniasis, which can affect the liver and spleen, is the most severe type of this disease. (healthinternetwork.org)
  • Professionals and experts agree that leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical illness, needs more resources and attention to be managed. (healthinternetwork.org)
  • According to the authors, governments need to invest more in research into leishmaniasis and create new tools for diagnosing and treating the disease. (healthinternetwork.org)
  • Leishmaniasis, a neglected and serious tropical disease, affects many millions around the globe. (healthinternetwork.org)
  • For example, shifting precipitation and temperature are linked to changes in the distribution of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and leishmaniasis. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Under Dr Pécoul's vision and leadership, DND i delivered 12 new treatments for neglected diseases such as sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, or for young children and infants with HIV. (dndi.org)
  • Global burden and trends of neglected tropical diseases from 1990 to 2019. (nih.gov)
  • The damage inflicted by the coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic upon humanity is and will continue to be considerable. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A key challenge to eradicating onchocerciasis is a shortage of disease surveillance skills. (nri.org)
  • Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) caused by the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus . (nri.org)
  • Support the health authorities to conduct mass drug administration campaigns with increased national coverage for (i) schistosomiasis, including more than 75% of treatment coverage for school-aged children, to eliminate the disease as a public health problem by 2025 and (ii) soil-transmitted helminthiasis, including deworming coverage for at least 75% of eligible school-aged children by 2021 and preschool children by 2026. (who.int)
  • Association between Footwear Use and Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (bsms.ac.uk)
  • Srour ML, Baratti-Mayer D (2020) Why is noma a neglected-neglected tropical disease? (plos.org)
  • Available at https://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/events/twelfth_stag/en/ (accessed 7 April 2020). (who.int)
  • Important advances have been made since the adoption in 2012 of the road map for accelerating work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases (2012-2020). (who.int)
  • The third sustainable development goal calls for elimination of neglected tropical diseases, including filariasis, by 2020. (bmj.com)
  • I am particularly interested in the dynamics of infections in partially vaccinated populations, the determinants of disease persistence and challenges to eliminating infectious diseases. (gla.ac.uk)
  • The focus on those diseases led me to develop this slide with a colleague, which essentially showed the total focus of the infectious disease community on those three infections, essentially ignoring what we believed were other infections which afflicted so many millions, probably two billion on the planet. (hstalks.com)
  • However, few studies evaluated the association between SES and the burden of overall infections, and even few. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Soil-transmitted helminth infections cause a great and frequently silent burden of morbidity and mortality on poor populations in developing countries that accounts for approximately 85% of the NTD burden [ 2 , 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Title : Neglected Parasitic Infections in the United States: Trichomoniasis Personal Author(s) : Secor, W. Evan;Meites, Elissa;Starr, Michelle C.;Workowski, Kimberly A. (cdc.gov)
  • Flowchart showing the possible mechanisms linking oral/dental infections to systemic diseases. (medscape.com)
  • [ 5 , 7 ] Although the underlying mechanisms are complex, the chronic inflammatory state and microbial burden in people with periodontal disease may predispose them to cardiovascular diseases in ways proposed for other infections. (medscape.com)
  • Cluster-level prevalence of all skin-presenting neglected tropical diseases combined, Maryland County, Liberia, June‒October 2018. (cdc.gov)
  • However, the rising prevalence of NAFLD makes its coexistence with other chronic liver diseases quite possible. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Research priorities for neglected infectious diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean region External PloS Negl Trop Dis. (cdc.gov)
  • Estimating neglected tropical disease burden for the Global Burden of Disease Study. (washington.edu)
  • And cancer, diabetes, respiratory and neurological disorders, cardiovascular disease, and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a growing burden on rich and poor countries alike. (ifpma.org)
  • Chromoblastomycosis is considered a neglected tropical disease, affects mainly people living in poverty, and causes considerable morbidity, stigma and discrimination. (wikipedia.org)
  • Noma (cancrum oris) is a gangrenous disease that predominantly affects young children living in conditions of extreme poverty. (york.ac.uk)
  • Lymphatic filariasis is a tropical disease that affects about 70 million people worldwide. (bmj.com)
  • Infected sandflies can spread the disease, which affects over 90 million people worldwide. (healthinternetwork.org)
  • Christine Kihembo, FETP graduate from Uganda led a study in her country on Podoconiosis, a neglected tropical diseases that affects about 4 million people around the world. (cdc.gov)
  • Worldwide, the diseases are endemic in 149 countries and territories. (disabled-world.com)
  • The report also recognizes the challenges that lie ahead and the opportunities to alleviate the suffering of people in disease-endemic countries. (disabled-world.com)
  • Scrub typhus, a disease transmitted through 'chiggers' that kills at least 140,000 people a year in the Asia-Pacific region, may now be endemic in a part of South America, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine . (ox.ac.uk)
  • Part of the challenge, Basáñez continues, is that these diseases tend to be endemic - concentrated in specific locations or countries without sudden increases in the number of cases - without much outbreak and epidemic potential, meaning that they tend to fall under the radar. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Dr Pizarro takes the helm from Dr Pécoul as the organization continues to expand the leadership role of the Global South and shift more medical research activities to neglected diseases-endemic countries. (dndi.org)
  • The researchers, reporting July 16 in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases , tested blood samples from 1,010 people across 50 locations in Chennai, a city with over 6 million people in South India, and found that nearly all of them had been exposed to dengue and 44 percent had been exposed to chikungunya. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Surprisingly, almost none of the people who had been exposed to dengue reported having been infected by it, either because they weren't properly diagnosed with the disease or because they didn't show symptoms. (sciencedaily.com)
  • To control the spread of the dengue and chikungunya, some nations have actively worked to spray for virus-carrying mosquitoes and have done public health campaigns to explain the threat of the diseases, including encouraging people to cover water containers that can be mosquito breeding grounds. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We are already seeing the rise of climate-sensitive diseases like dengue, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shown how the fruits of medical innovation continue to be denied to the majority of the world's population. (dndi.org)
  • Economic and Disease Burden of Dengue in Southeast Asia. (who.int)
  • The global economic burden of dengue: a systematic analysis. (who.int)
  • Neglected tropical diseases in Republic of Guinea: disease endemicity, case burden and the road towards the 2030 target. (bvsalud.org)
  • The sustainable development goals set a target to end epidemics of neglected tropical diseases by the year 2030. (bmj.com)
  • Noma is called the "Face of Poverty" [ 5 ] because the disease severely damages the faces of children living in extreme poverty and uniquely illustrates the severity of children's lives whose parents lack sufficient resources to adequately feed their children. (plos.org)
  • Neglected tropical diseases are a diverse set of 20 diseases and disease groups that disproportionately affect populations living in poverty, predominantly in tropical and subtropical areas. (who.int)
  • I'm an honorary professor in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and my topic is to introduce the community to the neglected tropical diseases and show the issues around health, poverty, and development, which the diseases called the neglected tropical diseases entail. (hstalks.com)
  • A thematic series in Infectious Diseases of Poverty . (biomedcentral.com)
  • If implemented widely, they can substantially reduce the disease burden, breaking a cycle of infection, disability and lost opportunities that keep people in poverty. (disabled-world.com)
  • As a result, they trap the impoverished in a cycle of poverty and disease. (bayer.com)
  • Hotez PJ, Pecoul B. "Manifesto" for Advancing the Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • First, the disease is a cause of stigma, morbidity and mortality of impoverished people. (plos.org)
  • Anaemia, caused by some of these diseases, has a direct impact on maternal mortality. (who.int)
  • The high burden of mental ill health and the accompanying costs in terms of reduced quality of life, loss of productivity, and premature mortality, mean that making mental health count for all OECD countries is a priority. (oecd.org)
  • The most common cause of mortality worldwide is cerebrovascular disease (CVD), which includes coronary heart disease (CHD), congestive heart failure, CVD and stroke, peripheral artery diseases, carotid artery diseases, and aortoiliac disease. (medscape.com)
  • Socioeconomic aspects of neglected tropical diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Socioeconomic status (SES) inequity was recognized as a driver of some certain infectious diseases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Brazzaville - World Health Organization (WHO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced plans to set up a mentorship programme for African women working in neglected tropical diseases programmes. (who.int)
  • The mentorship programme will provide African women with leadership training skills as well as travel and networking opportunities to become leaders and champions of the efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases. (who.int)
  • Focused specifically on African women living in African countries, the programme aims to help them overcome barriers to realizing their potential and become leaders and champions of neglected tropical disease elimination at home and internationally. (who.int)
  • Programmes, partnerships, and governance for elimination and control of neglected tropical diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Neglected tropical disease programmes adopt grassroot approaches that enable them to gain access to some of the world's poorest, hard-to reach communities and people affected by complex emergencies. (who.int)
  • This collection of articles highlights successes of public health programmes for these and other neglected diseases in South Asia and explores outstanding issues requiring supportive policy and research. (bmj.com)
  • Fostering continual innovation in diagnostics, treatment, and prevention is critical to meet the changing demands of disease elimination programmes. (bmj.com)
  • Zakir Thomas and colleagues call for a comprehensive policy for neglected diseases research in India to foster innovation in drugs, diagnostics, and vaccines, critical for evolving needs of elimination programmes. (bmj.com)
  • Measuring the burden of neglected tropical diseases: the global burden of disease framework. (cdc.gov)
  • Upon inclusion of co-morbid MDD alone in both active and inactive CL, the DALY burden was seven times higher than the latest 2016 Global Burden of Disease study estimates, which notably omitted both psychological impact and inactive CL. (dndi.org)
  • his project estimates NTD burden as part of the Global Burden of Disease project. (washington.edu)
  • Hotez PJ, Bottazzi ME, Franco-Paredes C, Ault SK, Periago MR. The Neglected Tropical Diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Disease Burden and Distribution and a Roadmap for Control and Elimination. (cdc.gov)
  • Zoonotic spillover events have been responsible for over half of novel epidemic diseases in recent decades. (ilri.org)
  • Now, some four or five years ago at a meeting in London, WHO said we're looking at an epidemic of neglected tropical diseases. (hstalks.com)
  • South Asia has the third largest HIV epidemic globally and the highest TB burden, accounting for more than a quarter of the global burden. (eurekalert.org)
  • Increased awareness and attention to noma can lead to the eradication of this disease affecting the world's most vulnerable. (plos.org)
  • India alone harbours 40% of the world's burden of disease. (bmj.com)
  • Addressing the many diseases that afflict the world's poorest populations, often in remote areas of the world, is not an easy task. (bayer.com)
  • 1 http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/WHO_HTD_2008.1_OK.pdf integrated control of the NTD, A neglected opportunity ripe for action, Geneva, World Health Organization, May 2008. (who.int)
  • Professor Molyneux's research has been supported by the UK Department for International Development, the World Health Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, and Sightsavers International who have provided support for work on Neglected Tropical Disease at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. (hstalks.com)
  • The World Health Organization has listed tungiasis as a neglected disease of marginalized populations and has encouraged more significant research of the disease. (medscape.com)
  • Leprosy is a chronic granulomatous disease principally affecting the skin and peripheral nervous system. (medscape.com)
  • Paucibacillary disease (indeterminate leprosy and tuberculoid leprosy) has five or fewer lesions and no bacilli on smear testing. (medscape.com)
  • More than five lesions with or without bacilli (borderline leprosies and lepromatous leprosy) is considered multibacillary disease. (medscape.com)
  • Leprosy, also called Hansen disease, is a disorder known since ancient times. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Its overall goal is to further reduce the burden of leprosy while providin. (bvsalud.org)
  • The report finds that better coordination is needed with veterinary public health as an essential element of zoonotic disease control. (disabled-world.com)
  • His primary focus is to advance the mapping and spatial investigation of podoconiosis and other neglected tropical diseases. (bsms.ac.uk)
  • Our conversation is based on his perspective on hepatitis E and maternal deaths, which appears in CDC's journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases . (cdc.gov)
  • Our mission is to reduce human suffering and death through the prevention, control, elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases using evidence-informed interventions. (who.int)
  • Interventions against neglected tropical diseases support the vision of universal health coverage. (who.int)
  • Research and interventions inspired by a common framework will enable the field to identify similarities and differences in stigma processes across diseases and will amplify our collective ability to respond effectively and at-scale to a major driver of poor health outcomes globally. (biomedcentral.com)
  • They impose a devastating human, social and economic burden on more than one billion people worldwide. (who.int)
  • The report emphasizes infectious diseases related to other sources of disease burden in the region and communicates overall trends in the health and economic burden they impose. (eurekalert.org)
  • As part of the CGIAR network, the partnerships with the private sector groups enhance pandemic preparedness to detect, respond to and blunt emerging infectious disease promptly,' said Appolinaire Djikeng, director general ILRI and senior director for CGIAR Livestock-Based Systems. (ilri.org)
  • I beg to differ and the editor of the Lancet, Richard Horton took out my idea that in fact, neglected tropical diseases were a global pandemic because of the numbers of people who are infected by these conditions, and the extent of the infection across the planet. (hstalks.com)
  • Neglected tropical diseases are a set of 20 diseases or disease groups that occur predominantly in tropical and subtropical regions. (who.int)
  • The country completed its Joint External Evaluation (JEE) assessment in December 2016 of its capacities to prevent, detect and respond to public health threats such as infectious disease outbreaks. (who.int)
  • These articles are part of a series commissioned by The BMJ based on an idea proposed by the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) . (bmj.com)
  • Why is noma a neglected-neglected tropical disease? (plos.org)
  • Noma, The Neglected Disease. (york.ac.uk)
  • Today's numerous global challenges - from climate change to economic instability - will continue to exert a disproportionate burden on the most vulnerable people on our planet. (dndi.org)
  • If not addressed, this funding deficit will continue to perpetuate the neglect and marginalisation of snakebite victims in communities vulnerable to snakebite, constrain snakebite awareness, and hinder the roll-out of awareness, education and training. (haiweb.org)
  • The disproportionate focus on severe mental illness has meant that mild-to-moderate mental illnesses, which makes up the largest burden of disease, have remained overwhelmingly neglected. (oecd.org)
  • These findings, the researchers say, reinforce the need for officials to be on the lookout for these diseases and to find ways to control its spread not only in India but also around the world. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Can India lead the way in neglected diseases innovation? (bmj.com)
  • Washington, DC / New Delhi, India - Researchers at CDDEP, in collaboration with leading experts in the field, have produced the "Infectious Diseases in the South-East Asia Region" report, which examines cross-boundary challenges in communicable disease control in countries in the South-and South-East Asia region. (eurekalert.org)
  • As the WHO elevated snakebite envenoming to a top-priority neglected tropical disease, I saw an opportunity to channel my expertise towards addressing a critical public health issue. (rstmh.org)
  • Mexican Americans, the largest ethnically distinct subgroup among Hispanics, are at high risk for becoming overweight or obese, predisposing them to type 2 diabetes and metabolic and cardiovascular disease (2). (cdc.gov)
  • Neglected tropical diseases mainly comprise infectious diseases seen in subtropical and tropical regions. (bmj.com)
  • Diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia are common chronic diseases among Hispanics, a group projected to comprise 30% of the US population by 2050. (cdc.gov)
  • Since 2018, under the guidance of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases, the Secretariat has undertaken a global consultative process to gather input on the development of the draft road map from Member States and stakeholders, including organizations of the United Nations system, scientific and research groups, nongovernmental organizations, implementing partners, donors and private sector organizations. (who.int)
  • Ebola virus disease outbreak occurred in 2014 in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Monkeypox virus in Nigeria in 2017 and most recently Lassa virus in Nigeria, Togo and Benin in 2018. (bvsalud.org)
  • Dr Luis Pizarro, a Chilean-French medical doctor and global health expert, became the new Executive Director of the international non-profit medical research organization Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DND i ). (dndi.org)
  • Several food-borne disease outbreaks are associated with the poor personal hygiene of people handling foodstuffs (3). (researchsquare.com)
  • Strengthen national and regional capacities to prepare for, prevent, detect, monitor, and respond to disease outbreaks and emergencies and disasters that affect the health of the population. (bvsalud.org)
  • Every day, somewhere in the world, field epidemiologists or "disease detectives" save lives by detecting and controlling disease outbreaks. (cdc.gov)
  • They are the ones building sustainable national capabilities to detect disease outbreaks locally and preventing those outbreaks from spreading across borders. (cdc.gov)
  • Disease detectives are critical in preventing local outbreaks from becoming global pandemics. (cdc.gov)
  • Controlling disease outbreaks at their source requires that disease detectives think outside the box, as they often deal with unexpected, urgent problems that demand immediate and innovative solutions. (cdc.gov)
  • Between 2015-16 FETP fellows in Uganda successfully investigated more than 60 distinct disease outbreaks and conducted dozens of other applied epidemiologic investigations on emerging public health threats across the country. (cdc.gov)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • Empowering Women and Improving Female Reproductive Health through Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Hotez PJ, Fenwick A, Savioli L, Molyneux D. Rescuing the bottom billion through control of neglected tropical diseases Cdc-pdf External . (cdc.gov)
  • Prospects for the control of neglected tropical diseases by mass drug administration. (cdc.gov)
  • I am interested in the ecology of infectious diseases, particularly rabies, with the aim understanding infection dynamics across spatial scales and the impacts of control efforts. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Announcer] This program is presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • It provides opportunities to broader health education, thereby ensuring healthier future generations," says Dr Lorenzo Savioli, Director of the WHO Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases. (disabled-world.com)
  • The burden of neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia, and opportunities for integrated control and elimination. (bsms.ac.uk)
  • With the rollout of vaccines against the novel coronavirus and the ebbing of Covid-19, it will be essential to devote our full collective attention to the control of infectious diseases that have long plagued this region and continue to constitute a significant proportion of the avertable disease burden. (eurekalert.org)
  • Snakebite is neglected tropical disease affecting poor people living in remote areas with limited resources. (rstmh.org)
  • Snakebite is really a neglected disease with limited opportunities for research funding and quality improvement. (rstmh.org)
  • We know the global burden of snakebite envenoming can be minimised with concerted action by the global health community and applaud Member States' determination to address the burden. (haiweb.org)