Sustaining the Drive to Overcome the Global Impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases : Second WHO Report on Neglected Tropical Diseases.

The second WHO report on neglected tropical diseases builds on the growing sense of optimismgenerated by the 2012 publication of the WHO Roadmap. Commitments on thepart of ministries of health in endemic countries global health initiatives fundingagencies and philanthropists have escalated since 201...

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Main Author: Organization, World Health
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Language:English
Published: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2013.
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520 |a The second WHO report on neglected tropical diseases builds on the growing sense of optimismgenerated by the 2012 publication of the WHO Roadmap. Commitments on thepart of ministries of health in endemic countries global health initiatives fundingagencies and philanthropists have escalated since 2010 as have donations ofmedicines from pharmaceutical companies and the engagement of the scientificcommunity. This report marks a new phase and assesses opportunities and obstacles in thecontrol elimination and eradication of several of these diseases. Unprecedentedprogress over the past two years ha. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Cover; Contents; FOREWORD BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; SUMMARY; 1 THE GLOBAL PUBLIC-HEALTH AGENDA NOW EMBRACES NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES; 1.1 Recent developments in prevention and control; 1.2 The roadmap and the London declaration; 1.3 Opportunities for public-health programmes; 1.4 Costs of expanding activities; 1.5 WHO and the roadmap's targets; REFERENCES; 2 REACHING THE ROADMAP'S TARGETS; 2.1 Practical definitions of eradication, elimination and control; 2.2 Obstacles and risks to achieving targets; 2.2.1 Conflicts and population displacement 
505 8 |a 2.2.2 Population growth2.2.3 Vector control; 2.2.4 Resistance to medicines and pesticides; 2.2.5 Insufficient capacity for scaling up; 2.2.6 Expectations overtaking science; 2.2.7 Inadequate support for research; 2.2.8 Climate change; REFERENCES; 3 DISEASES; REFERENCES; WOMEN, CHILDREN AND NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES; Biological consequences; Sociocultural consequences; Stigma; REFERENCES; 3.1 Dengue; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.2 Rabies; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES 
505 8 |a 3.3 TrachomaIntroduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.4 Buruli ulcer; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.5 Endemic treponematoses; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.6 Leprosy; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.7 Chagas disease; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.8 Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) 
505 8 |a IntroductionDistribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.9 Leishmaniases; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.10 Taeniasis/cysticercosis; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.11 Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease); Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.12 Echinococcosis; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.13 Foodborne trematodiases 
505 8 |a IntroductionDistribution; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.14 Lymphatic filariasis; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.15 Onchocerciasis (river blindness); Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.16 Schistosomiasis; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES; 3.17 Soil-transmitted helminthiases; Introduction; Distribution; Impact; Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones); REFERENCES 
650 0 |a Tropical medicine. 
650 0 |a Communicable diseases  |x Prevention. 
650 0 |a Parasitic diseases. 
651 0 |a Developing countries. 
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