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Working to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases : first WHO report on neglected tropical diseases.

"Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) blight the lives of a billion people worldwide and threaten the health of millions more. These ancient companions of poverty weaken impoverished populations, frustrate the achievement of health in the Millennium Development Goals and impede global health and...

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Corporate Authors: World Health Organization. Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization
Other Authors: Crompton, D. W. T. (David William Thomasson), 1937-, Daumerie, Denis, Peters, Patricia, Savioli, Lorenzo
Other title:First WHO report on neglected tropical diseases.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, ©2010.
Subjects:
Tropical medicine.
Communicable diseases > Prevention.
Communicable Disease Control > standards.
Endemic Diseases > prevention & control.
Parasitic Diseases > prevention & control.
Public Health > standards.
Tropical Medicine > trends.
World Health.
Developing Countries.
Table of Contents:
  • Executive summary
  • PART 1
  • 1. Neglected tropical diseases: a paradigm shift
  • 2. Sixty years of growing concern
  • 3. Human and economic burden
  • 4. Ways forward
  • PART 2
  • 5. Neglected tropical diseases in the world today
  • 6. Global and regional plans for prevention and control
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Annex 1. Resolutions of the World Health Assembly on neglected tropical diseases
  • Annex Official list of indicators for monitoring progress on the Millennium Development Goals
  • Annex 3. Summary of metadata
  • Annex 4. Methods used to prepare maps and charts.

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