Background:Neglected tropical diseases(NTDs)have long been overlooked in the global health agenda.They are intimately related to poverty,cause important local burdens of disease,but individually do not represent globa...Background:Neglected tropical diseases(NTDs)have long been overlooked in the global health agenda.They are intimately related to poverty,cause important local burdens of disease,but individually do not represent global priorities.Yet,NTDs were estimated to affect close to 2 billion people at the turn of the millennium,with a collective burden equivalent to HIV/AIDS,tuberculosis,or malaria.A global response was therefore warranted.Main text:The World Health Organization(WHO)conceived an innovative strategy in the early 2000s to combat NTDs as a group of diseases,based on a combination of five public health interventions.Access to essential NTD medicines has hugely improved thanks to strong public-private partnership involving the pharmaceutical sector.The combination of a WHO NTD roadmap with clear targets to be achieved by 2020 and game-changing partner commitments endorsed in the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases,have led to unprecedented progress in the implementation of large-scale preventive treatment,case management and care of NTDs.The coming decade will see as challenges the mainstreaming of these NTD interventions into Universal Health Coverage and the coordination with other sectors to get to the roots of poverty and scale up transmissionbreaking interventions.Chinese expertise with the elimination of multiple NTDs,together with poverty reduction and intersectoral action piloted by municipalities and local governments,can serve as a model for the latter.The international community will also need to keep a specific focus on NTDs in order to further steer this global response,manage the scaling up and sustainment of NTD interventions globally,and develop novel products and implementation strategies for NTDs that are still lagging behind.Conclusions:The year 2020 will be crucial for the future of the global response to NTDs.Progress against the 2020 roadmap targets will be assessed,a new 2021–2030 NTD roadmap will be launched,and the London Declaration commitments will need to be renewed.I展开更多
Poverty magnifies limitations posed by traditional biases and environmental risks.Any approach towards disease control needs to recognise that socially embedded vulnerabilities can be as powerful as externally imposed...Poverty magnifies limitations posed by traditional biases and environmental risks.Any approach towards disease control needs to recognise that socially embedded vulnerabilities can be as powerful as externally imposed infections.Asia Pacific has a specific panorama of infectious diseases,which,in common with other endemic areas,have a tendency to emerge or re-emerge if not carefully monitored.Sustained control aiming at elimination requires strong emphasis on surveillance and response.Well-designed informatics platforms can improve support systems and strengthen control activities,as they rapidly locate high-risk areas and provide detailed,up-to-date information on the performance of ongoing control programmes.展开更多
Significant progress has been made in the prevention,control,and elimination of human parasitic diseases in China in the past 60 years.However,parasitic diseases of poverty remain major causes of morbidity and mortali...Significant progress has been made in the prevention,control,and elimination of human parasitic diseases in China in the past 60 years.However,parasitic diseases of poverty remain major causes of morbidity and mortality,and inflict enormous economic costs on societies.In this article,we review the prevalence rates,geographical distributions,epidemic characteristics,risk factors,and clinical manifestations of parasitic diseases of poverty listed in the first issue of the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty on 25 October 2012.We also address the challenges facing control of parasitic diseases of poverty and provide suggestions for better control.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2016YFC1202000)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.81973108).
文摘Background:Neglected tropical diseases(NTDs)have long been overlooked in the global health agenda.They are intimately related to poverty,cause important local burdens of disease,but individually do not represent global priorities.Yet,NTDs were estimated to affect close to 2 billion people at the turn of the millennium,with a collective burden equivalent to HIV/AIDS,tuberculosis,or malaria.A global response was therefore warranted.Main text:The World Health Organization(WHO)conceived an innovative strategy in the early 2000s to combat NTDs as a group of diseases,based on a combination of five public health interventions.Access to essential NTD medicines has hugely improved thanks to strong public-private partnership involving the pharmaceutical sector.The combination of a WHO NTD roadmap with clear targets to be achieved by 2020 and game-changing partner commitments endorsed in the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases,have led to unprecedented progress in the implementation of large-scale preventive treatment,case management and care of NTDs.The coming decade will see as challenges the mainstreaming of these NTD interventions into Universal Health Coverage and the coordination with other sectors to get to the roots of poverty and scale up transmissionbreaking interventions.Chinese expertise with the elimination of multiple NTDs,together with poverty reduction and intersectoral action piloted by municipalities and local governments,can serve as a model for the latter.The international community will also need to keep a specific focus on NTDs in order to further steer this global response,manage the scaling up and sustainment of NTD interventions globally,and develop novel products and implementation strategies for NTDs that are still lagging behind.Conclusions:The year 2020 will be crucial for the future of the global response to NTDs.Progress against the 2020 roadmap targets will be assessed,a new 2021–2030 NTD roadmap will be launched,and the London Declaration commitments will need to be renewed.I
基金This work was supported by the Australian Agency for International Development(AusAID)grant[grant number 44913]to the Health Information Systems Knowledge Hub,at the School of Population Health,the University of Queensland.
文摘Poverty magnifies limitations posed by traditional biases and environmental risks.Any approach towards disease control needs to recognise that socially embedded vulnerabilities can be as powerful as externally imposed infections.Asia Pacific has a specific panorama of infectious diseases,which,in common with other endemic areas,have a tendency to emerge or re-emerge if not carefully monitored.Sustained control aiming at elimination requires strong emphasis on surveillance and response.Well-designed informatics platforms can improve support systems and strengthen control activities,as they rapidly locate high-risk areas and provide detailed,up-to-date information on the performance of ongoing control programmes.
基金Project support was provided by the National Key Basic Research Program(973 Program)of China(Grant No.2015CB150300)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31230073 and 31472184)the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province for Distinguished Young Scholars(Grant No.1506RJDA133).
文摘Significant progress has been made in the prevention,control,and elimination of human parasitic diseases in China in the past 60 years.However,parasitic diseases of poverty remain major causes of morbidity and mortality,and inflict enormous economic costs on societies.In this article,we review the prevalence rates,geographical distributions,epidemic characteristics,risk factors,and clinical manifestations of parasitic diseases of poverty listed in the first issue of the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty on 25 October 2012.We also address the challenges facing control of parasitic diseases of poverty and provide suggestions for better control.
