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Historical Patterns of Arboviral Seroprevalence across Africa and Asia [PDF]

, 2017
The emergence and resurgence of arboviruses in recent history is challenging our scientific understanding of mosquito-borne diseases and their transmission.
Chrisafis, George C
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Review of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB: global perspectives with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2010
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global emergency and is responsible for 1.7 million deaths annually. Widespread global misuse of isoniazid and rifampicin over three decades has resulted in emergence of the ominous spread of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB ...
Abdool Karim, Amor, Balabanova, Caminero, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chan, Chiang, Chiang, Chiang, Churchyard, Dheda, Dravniece, Dubrovina, Elliott, Espinal, Espinal, Espinal, Flament-Saillour, Gandhi, Gandhi, Gandhi, Goble, Grobusch, Habeenzu, Hoek, Holtz, Holtz, Iseman, Johnson, Kehinde, Kim, Kingkaew, Korenromp, Kranzer, Lalloo, Laserson, Lienhardt, Ma, Martin, Matteelli, Meskel, Migliori, Migliori, Migliori, Migliori, Migliori, Moore, Motus, O’Donnell, Pablos-Méndez, Pai, Park, Pietzka, Pillay, Quy, Saravia, Schaaf, Schaaf, Shah, Somocurcio, Sonnenberg, Sotgiu, Torun, Umubyeyi, Wallis, WHO, WHO, WHO and IUATLD, Wright, Wright, Zumla   +70 more
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The Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher: A Game-Changer for Tropical Disease Products

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017
The Neglected Tropical Disease Voucher Program is a Congressionally-mandated program intended to promote approval of products for tropical diseases because it provides spectacular financial compensation consequent to FDA approval of a priority product ...
J. Berman, T. Radhakrishna
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Screening patients with Diabetes Mellitus for Tuberculosis in China. [PDF]

, 2012
Objective  There is a high burden of both diabetes (DM) and tuberculosis (TB) in China, and as DM increases the risk of TB and adversely affects TB treatment outcomes, there is a need for bidirectional screening of the two diseases.
Alcorn, Allain, Baker, Boehme, Danaei, Dooley, Douglas, Harries, Harries, Harries, Jeon, Jeon, Lawn, Libamba, Ministry of Health and Chinese Centre on TB Control and Prevention (NCTB), Ruslami, Stevenson, World Health Organization and The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Yang   +18 more
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Cross-border collaboration for neglected tropical disease efforts—Lessons learned from onchocerciasis control and elimination in the Mano River Union (West Africa)

Globalization and Health, 2016
Diseases don’t respect borders, so efforts to control and eliminate diseases must also be flexible and adaptable enough to effectively reach the populations that live in the areas around national frontiers.
K. Gustavsen, Y. Sodahlon, S. Bush
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Human cercarial dermatitis (HCD) in the UK: an overlooked and under-reported nuisance?

Parasites & Vectors
Background Human cercarial dermatitis (HCD) is a clinical disease typically caused by skin-penetrative larvae of avian schistosomes. Its geographical epidemiology is firmly tied with that of infected freshwater intermediate snail hosts.
Orla Kerr, Alexandra Juhász, Sam Jones, J. Russell Stothard   +3 more
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The Promise of Priority Review Vouchers as a Legislative Tool to Encourage Drugs for Neglected Diseases [PDF]

, 2013
Despite the intellectual property system’s success in promoting the economic well-being of the United States, this system has not achieved all socially valuable ends.
Hamming, Lesley
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Between-Country Inequalities in the Neglected Tropical Disease Burden in 1990 and 2010, with Projections for 2020

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) has set ambitious time-bound targets for the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
W. Stolk, Margarete C. Kulik, E. L. Le Rutte, J. Jacobson, J. Richardus, S. D. de Vlas, T. Houweling   +6 more
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The Basic Structure as Object: Institutions and Humanitarian Concern (draft) [PDF]

, 2007
[FIRST PARAGRAPHS] One third of the human species is infested with worms. The World Health Organization estimates that worms account for 40 percent of the global disease burden from tropical diseases excluding malaria. Worms cause a lot of misery.
Wenar, Leif
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Surveillance on schistosomiasis in five provincial-level administrative divisions of the People’s Republic of China in the post-elimination era

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020
Background The People’s Republic of China (P. R. China) has made significant progress on schistosomiasis control. Among the 12 provincial-level administrative divisions (PLADs) with schistosomiasis endemic in P. R.
Jing-Yi Guo, Jing Xu, Li-Juan Zhang, Shan Lv, Chun-Li Cao, Shi-Zhu Li, Xiao-Nong Zhou   +6 more
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