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Taylor, Mark 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3396-9275
(2021)
'Specialty Grand Challenge: Embracing the Need for Research and Innovation as Fundamental Enablers for Programmatic Progress for All Neglected Tropical Diseases'. Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, Vol 2, Issue 669726.
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Abstract
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of 20 communicable diseases that prevail in 149 tropical and subtropical countries(Table 1). They are identified as “neglected” because they persist predominantly in the poorest and the most marginalized populations living without adequate sanitation and in close contact with infectious vectors and domestic animals and livestock. NTDs are also neglected in terms of investment in R&D to the extent provided to HIV, malaria and TB. Over one billion people from the world’s most disadvantaged and poorest communities suffer from at least one NTD, which can significantly impact upon their physical and mental health. NTDs are markers, agents and drivers of poverty.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 110 Prevention and control of communicable diseases. Transmission of infectious diseases WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WA Public Health > Sanitation. Environmental Control > General Sanitation and Environmental Control > WA 670 General works WC Communicable Diseases > WC 20 Research (General) WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 680 Tropical diseases (General) |
| Faculty: Department: | Biological Sciences > Department of Tropical Disease Biology |
| Digital Object Identifer (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2021.669726 |
| Depositing User: | Cathy Waldron |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2021 16:25 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2023 15:15 |
| URI: | https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/17329 |
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