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Sustaining the drive to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases [electronic resource] : second WHO report on neglected tropical diseases / [edited by David WT Crompton]

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"The second WHO report builds on the growing sense of optimism generated by the 2012 publication of the WHO roadmap. Commitments on the part of ministries of health in endemic countries, global health initiatives, funding agencies and philanthropists have escalated since 2010, as have donations...

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Corporate Authors: World Health Organization, World Health Organization. Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Other Authors: Savioli, Lorenzo, Daumerie, Denis, Crompton, D. W. T. (David William Thomasson), 1937-
Other title:Second WHO report on neglected tropical diseases.
WHO report on neglected tropical diseases.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, ©2013.
Subjects:
Tropical medicine > Developing countries.
African trypanosomiasis > Treatment > Developing countries.
African trypanosomiasis > Developing countries > Prevention.
Kala-azar > Treatment > Developing countries.
Kala-azar > Developing countries > Prevention.
Mycobacterial diseases > Treatment > Developing countries.
Mycobacterial diseases > Developing countries > Prevention.
Chagas' disease > Treatment > Developing countries.
Chagas' disease > Developing countries > Prevention.
Yaws > Treatment > Developing countries.
Yaws > Developing countries > Prevention.
Dengue > Treatment > Developing countries.
Dengue > Developing countries > Prevention.
Vector control > Developing countries.
Tropical Medicine > trends > Developing Countries.
Neglected Diseases > prevention & control.
Endemic Diseases > prevention & control.
Parasitic Diseases > prevention & control.
Developing Countries.
Poverty Areas.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2.2.2 Population growth
  • 2.2.3 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
  • 3. DISEASES
  • 3.1 Dengue
  • 3.2 Rabies
  • 3.3 Trachoma
  • 3.4 Buruli ulcer
  • 3.5 Endemic treponematoses
  • 3.6 Leprosy
  • 3.7 Chagas disease
  • 3.8 Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
  • 3.9 Leishmaniases
  • 3.10 Taeniasis/cysticercosis
  • 3.11 Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease)
  • 3.12 Echinococcosis/hydatidosis
  • 3.13 Foodborne trematodiases
  • - 3.14 Lymphatic filariasis
  • 3.15 Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
  • 3.16 Schistosomiasis
  • 3.17 Soil-transmitted helminthiases
  • 4. KEY INTERVENTIONS: SITUATION REPORT
  • 4.1 Preventive chemotherapy
  • 4.2 Innovative and intensified disease management
  • 4.3 Vector control
  • 4.4 Safe water, sanitation and hygiene
  • 4.5 Veterinary public-health services to control neglected zoonotic diseases
  • 4.6 Capacity strengthening
  • ANNEXES
  • Annex 1. Resolutions of the World Health Assembly (WHA) concerning neglected tropical diseases, 1948-2012
  • Annex 2. Medicines for controlling neglected tropical diseases donated by the pharmaceutical industry
  • Annex 3a. Targets and milestones for eliminating and eradicating neglected tropical diseases, 2015-2020
  • Annex 3b. Targets and milestones for intensifying control of neglected tropical diseases, 2015-2020
  • Annex 4. Operational definitions and indicators for eradication targets and elimination targets as defined in the roadmap for implementation (Annex 3a)
  • Annex 5. Methods used to prepare maps and charts.

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