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Clinton Global Initiative Video on Neglected Tropical Diseases
This hour-long talk show with former US president Jimmy Carter, Professor of Microbiology and Tropical Diseases Peter Hotez, and Uganda Director of Health Services, Ministry of Health Sam Zaramba discusses cost-effective measures for eliminating neglected diseases, the threat they pose and the impact they have for developing nations, and viable treatment and control measures. Kaiser Network
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal Published by the Public Library of Science
This free online journal offers articles covering the broad spectrum of neglected diseases, including geohelminths, river blindness, snail fever, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, filariasis, and other diseases of the poor that are often neglected by health systems, the pharmaceutical industry, and the press. PLOSNTDs
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nature outlook: Neglected Diseases
This special issue of nature focuses on neglected tropical diseases, which 'affect more than one billion people, yet there are few effective treatments. And despite much research activity, scientific innovations with therapeutic potential are not making it out of the laboratory. The articles in this Outlook examine what can be done to stimulate the development of effective medicines and deliver them to the people who need them most.' nature
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Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (New England Journal of Medicine, 357: 10, September 6, 2007)
The neglected tropical diseases are a group of 13 major disabling conditions that are among the most common chronic infections in the world's poorest people. A blueprint for the control or elimination of the seven most prevalent neglected tropical diseases has been established by a group of private, public, and international organizations working together with pharmaceutical partners and national ministries of health. Through the newly established Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, with updated guidelines for drug administration issued by WHO, partnerships are coordinating their activities in order to launch a more integrated assault on these conditions. NEJM
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Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (GNNTDC)
This partnership was formed in 2006 to raise the profile of neglected diseases and to stimulate a paradigm shift in disease control efforts. The major public-private partnerships devoted to the control of individual diseases have agreed to work together in collaboration with WHO to design an integrated drug administration platform that addresses seven of the main neglected tropical diseases. The aim is to contribute toward achievement of the MDGs by eliminating and controlling neglected diseases through an integrated mass drug delivery approach. GNNTDC
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The Carter Center Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program
The Carter Center is one of PAHO's main partners in the fight to interrupt and eliminate transmission of lymphatic filariasis (LF, or elephantiasis) Lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes and a leading cause of permanent and long-term disability. Carter Center, LF
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Beyond Swollen Limbs, A Disease's Hidden Agony
This article gives an account with lymphatic filariasis in Léogâne, Haiti, and speaks of the impoverished populations affected by the disease as well as international efforts to eradicate it. There is also a link to a video on what the disease is all about. New York Times
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Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis
This comprehensive article in WHO's weekly epidemiological report outlines the present status of lymphatic filariasis in the world and the WHO global strategy to eliminate the disease. It includes data tables and summary information on endemic countries. (article starts on second page) WHO/WER
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WHO, List of Links on Communicable Diseases (by topic)
This list of links gives the user direct access to the main WHO pages on the various communicable diseases or on themes related to them.
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WHO Disease Outbreak News
This link provides access to the latest WHO updates and archives on disease outbreaks throughout the world. WHO
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