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Tropical Medicine & International... Jan 2020
Topics: Adolescent; Africa South of the Sahara; Child; Female; Global Health; Goals; Health Behavior; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Status; Humans; Male; Mental Health; Sustainable Development; Tropical Medicine; Young Adult
PubMed: 31983079
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.13368 -
Infectious Diseases of Poverty Jan 2020Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have long been overlooked in the global health agenda. They are intimately related to poverty, cause important local burdens of... (Review)
Review
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 transmission-breaking 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. It is hoped that during the coming decade the global response will be able to further build on today's successes, align with the new global health and development frameworks, but also keep focused attention on NTDs and mobilize enough resources to see the effort effectively through to 2030.
Topics: Communicable Disease Control; Global Health; Humans; Neglected Diseases; Poverty; Tropical Medicine
PubMed: 31987053
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-020-0630-9 -
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PubMed: 35878151
DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed7070140 -
Trends in Microbiology Sep 2020
Topics: Animals; Host Microbial Interactions; Humans; Mites; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub Typhus
PubMed: 32781029
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2020.02.014 -
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics... Aug 2020International travel goes hand in hand with medical delivery to underserved communities. The global health care worker can be exposed to a wide range of infectious... (Review)
Review
International travel goes hand in hand with medical delivery to underserved communities. The global health care worker can be exposed to a wide range of infectious diseases during their global experiences. A pretravel risk assessment visit and all appropriate vaccinations and education must be performed. Universal practices of water safety, food safety, and insect avoidance will prevent most travel-related infections and complications. Region-specific vaccinations will further reduce illness risk. An understanding of common travel-related illness signs and symptoms is helpful. Emerging pathogens that can cause a pandemic should be understood to avoid health care worker infection and spread.
Topics: Humans; Pandemics; Surgeons; Travel; Travel-Related Illness; Tropical Medicine
PubMed: 32473858
DOI: 10.1016/j.coms.2020.05.001 -
African Health Sciences Jun 2019
Topics: Anti-Infective Agents; Drug Resistance, Microbial; HIV Infections; Humans; Neglected Diseases; Tropical Medicine
PubMed: 31656518
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v19i2.2 -
Infectious Diseases of Poverty Oct 2019Before the founding of the People's Republic of China 70 years ago, both extreme poverty and parasitic infections and other neglected tropical diseases were highly...
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China 70 years ago, both extreme poverty and parasitic infections and other neglected tropical diseases were highly prevalent. Owing to social development, particularly economic reforms since the 1980s, poverty has since been dramatically reduced, and China became increasingly urbanized and industrialized. In parallel, China's economic transformation translated into similar and remarkable reductions in neglected tropical diseases. Qian and colleagues report in their review published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty, the elimination or near elimination as a public health problem of lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, soil-transmitted helminth infections, schistosomiasis and other neglected tropical diseases. Of note, neglected tropical disease control and poverty reduction each appear to reinforce the other. China's formula for success in parasitic and neglected tropical disease control might translate to other parts of the world, such as in sub-Saharan Africa through China's new Belt and Road Initiative.
Topics: China; Disease Eradication; Humans; Neglected Diseases; Tropical Medicine
PubMed: 31578156
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-019-0598-5 -
Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde : Organ... 2021Management and treatment of the febrile pediatric patient returning from a tropical country is often challenging. Detailed medical and travel history with an emphasis... (Review)
Review
Management and treatment of the febrile pediatric patient returning from a tropical country is often challenging. Detailed medical and travel history with an emphasis on possible exposure (e.g. fresh water exposure, animal contact etc.) as well as a complete physical examination are essential. Considering the possible incubation period and travel destination, the number of potential differential diagnoses can often be greatly reduced. While most infections are self-limiting and run an uncomplicated course, it is crucial to recognize potentially life-threatening infections and to treat them appropriately.This article provides guidance for a rational approach and diagnostics with respect to fever in the context of differential diagnoses in tropical medicine in the pediatric patient collective.
PubMed: 33727732
DOI: 10.1007/s00112-021-01147-3 -
The Lancet. Microbe Jan 2024
Topics: Tropical Medicine; Societies, Medical
PubMed: 38147881
DOI: 10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00400-7 -
Parasites & Vectors Sep 2021
Topics: Animals; Parasites; Parasitology; Tropical Medicine
PubMed: 34470670
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-021-04965-2