Incorporating a Rapid-Impact Package for Neglected Tropical Diseases with Programs for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

By Peter Hotez, D. Molyneux, A. Fenwick, E. Ottesen, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, J. Sachs. PLoS Medicine, 2006

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Hotez et al. argue that achieving success in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria may well require a concurrent attack on the neglected tropical diseases.

Subfields: Parasitology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Leishmaniasis Worldwide and Global Estimates of Its Incidence (2012, background): “Although estimated to cause the ninth largest disease burden among individual infectious diseases, leishmaniasis is largely ignored in discussions of tropical disease priorities [1,2].”
• Point-of-care diagnostics for global health. (2008, background): “Neglected diseases, as opposed to the big three global diseases (HIV, TB, and malaria), are diseases that are regionally endemic and affect the poorest of the poor (64, 65).”
• 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, methodology): “DALYs for each disease in LAC were calculated using global burden data in [17] and [18] and followed by a determination of the percentage of the disease burden in LAC based on the estimated number of cases in LAC (Table 1) divided by the estimated number of cases worldwide [1] multiplied by 100.”