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Title Control of neglected tropical diseases in Burundi: partnerships, achievements, challenges, and lessons learned after four years of programme implementation
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/16487
Date 2014
Author(s) Ndayishimiye, Onésime; Ortu, Giuseppina; Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo J.; Clements, Archie; Willems, Johan; Whitton, Jane; Lancaster, Warren; Hopkins, Adrian; Fenwick, Alan
Abstract Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of 17 conditions that together affect over 1,000,000,000 people in the developing world. Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and public-private partnerships have joined efforts to place the NTDs in the spotlight, especially the seven that can be treated with an annual dose of safe and effective drugs: trachoma, three soil-transmitted helminthiases (STHs, ascariasis, hookworm infections, and trichuriasis), lymphatic filariasis (LF), onchocerciasis, and schistosomiasis (SCH). On the wave of this new interest in NTDs, Burundi was selected in 2007 by the Legatum Foundation for financial support for a national NTD programme. - The NTD programme in Burundi was supported by the investment group Legatum and Geneva Global.
Subject(s) burundi; humans; neglected diseases; communicable disease control; tropical medicine
Publisher Public Library of Science
Type of publication Journal article
Format 9 pages
Source PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Rights © 2014 Ndayishimiye et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Identifier 1935-2735
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
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