Leishmaniasis and poverty.

By J. Alvar, S. Yactayo, C. Bern. Trends in Parasitology, 2006

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The Neglected Tropical Diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Disease Burden and Distribution and a Roadmap for Control and Elimination (2008, background): “Also of concern are the five priority NTD-endemic countries, Bolivia, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, and Nicaragua, targeted by PAHO for accelerated technical cooperation [8].”
Visceral leishmaniasis: what are the needs for diagnosis, treatment and control? (2007, background): “Patients and families affected by VL become poorer because of the high direct costs (for example, the costs of VL diagnosis and treatment) and indirect costs (for example, loss of household income) of the diseas”
Leishmaniasis Worldwide and Global Estimates of Its Incidence (2012, background): “This consignment to critical oblivion results from its complex epidemiology and ecology, the lack of simple, easily-applied tools for case management and the paucity of current incidence data, and often results in a failure on the part of policy-makers to recognize its importance [3,4].”
Directions for the diagnosis, clinical staging, treatment and prevention of canine leishmaniosis. (2009, background): “Leishmaniasis is one of the major infectious diseases afflicting the world’s poorest population living mainly in rural and suburban areas (Alvar et al., 2006).”
The Relationship between Leishmaniasis and AIDS: the Second 10 Years (2008, neutral): “countries, particularly developing countries (12).”