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The causes and impacts of neglected tropical and zoonotic diseases : opportunities for integrated intervention strategies : workshop summary /
"Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) afflict more than 1.4 billion people, many of whom live on less than $1.25 a day. While there are effective ways to manage NTDs, policy-makers and funders have only recently begun to recognize the economic and public health importance of controlling NTDs. The...
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
©2011.
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- Workshop overview
- Contributed manuscripts
- Regional approaches to neglected tropical diseases control in Latin America and the Caribbean / Steven Kenyon Ault and Mirta Roses Periago
- Neglected tropical diseases, conflict, and the right to health / Chris Beyrer, Sonal Singh, and Darshan Sudarshi
- Parasite Prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability / Christopher Eppig, Corey L. Fincher, and Randy Thornhill
- The Neglected tropical diseases: current status of control and the U.K. contribution / Alan Fenwick
- Integrated implementation of programs targeting neglected tropical diseases through preventive chemotherapy: proving the feasibility at national-scale / Mary Linehan et al.
- Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) slated for elimination and eradication / Donald R. Hopkins
- The neglected tropical diseases and the neglected infections of poverty: overview of their common features, global disease burden and distribution, new control tools, and prospects for disease elimination / Peter J. Hotez
- Neglected infections of poverty in the United States of America / Peter J. Hotez
- Developing vaccines to combat hookworm infection and intestinal schistosomiasis / Peter J. Hotez et al.
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation approach and strategy to the neglected tropical diseases 1998-2010 / Julie Jacobson and Regina Rabinovich
- Progress in control and elimination of human African trypanosomiasis, 2010 / Jean Jannin, Pere P. Simarro, and José R. Franco
- Schistosomiasis: challenges and opportunities / Charles H. King
- Neglected zoonotic diseases / Lonnie King
- Diagnostic needs for NTD programs / Patrick J. Lammie et al.
- Neglected tropical and zoonotic diseases and their impact on women's and children's health / Marian C. McDonald
- Global funding of new products for neglected tropical diseases / Mary Moran
- The global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis: health impact after 8 years / Eric A. Ottesen et al.
- The economic benefits resulting from the first 8 years of the global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (2000-2007) / Brian K. Chu et al.
- Neglected tropical diseases: the development of a brand with no copyright. A shift from a disease-centered to a tool-centered strategic approach / Lorenzo Savioli, Antonio Montresor, and Albis F. Gabrielli
- Looking beyond the lamp post: addressing social determinants of neglected tropical diseases in devising integrated control strategies / Jerry M. Spiegel
- Chagas disease impact and opportunities: beyond the historical dogma / Rick L. Tarleton.