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Community-directed distributors—The “foot soldiers” in the fight to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect hundreds of millions of people, predominantly in rural, often difficult-to-access areas, poorly served by national health services.
U. Amazigo, S. Leak, Honorat G M Zoure, C. Okoronkwo, Maimouna Diop Ly, S. Isiyaku, A. Crump, J. Okeibunor, B. Boatin   +8 more
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Spiritual Materialism/ Material Spiritualism: Shakta Tantric Approaches to Matter

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
In opposition to ontological discourses that denigrate matter and uphold the superiority of the spirit, one can foreground the Shakta Tantric conceptualization of matter and spirit as interchangeable forces that inform the dynamics of the universe ...
Sudipta Chakraborty, Anway Mukhopadhyay
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The history of the neglected tropical disease movement

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2021
The history of the neglected tropical disease movement is seen through the lens of authors who worked during the last 4 decades in different roles and in different settings, from Western-based laboratories to clinical roles in endemic countries and in ...
D. Molyneux, Anarfi Asamoa-Bah, A. Fenwick, L. Savioli, P. Hotez   +4 more
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Mangrovian Encounters between Epistemologies of the South and New (Feminist) Materialism

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
With the increased interest sparked across academia in both new materialism and epistemologies of the South, old colonial and patriarchal habits rear their vicious heads.
Aleida Luján Pinelo
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What constitutes a neglected tropical disease?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) currently classifies 20 diseases and conditions as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). However, since its inception in 2007, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases has considered an expanded list that includes additional ...
P. Hotez, S. Aksoy, P. Brindley, S. Kamhawi   +3 more
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Snakebite envenomation turns again into a neglected tropical disease!

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2017
On June 9th, 2017 WHO categorized snakebite envenomation into the Category A of the Neglected Tropical Diseases. This new situation will allow access to new funding, paving the way for wider and deeper researches.
J. Chippaux
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Tropical Futurisms: Thinking Futures

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Tropical Futurisms situates the reading of futures in the shared yet multiple modalities of this geo-climatic zone, acknowledging the social and political complexities, technological engagements, multispecies vitalities, and cosmological plurality ...
Ysabel Muñoz-Martínez, Jueling Hu, Nsah Mala, Anita Lundberg   +3 more
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Strategy for a globally coordinated response to a priority neglected tropical disease: Snakebite envenoming

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
In one of his final essays, statesman and former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said, ‘Snakebite is the most important tropical disease you’ve never heard of’ [1]. Mr.
David J. Williams, Mohd Faiz, B. Abela-Ridder, S. Ainsworth, Tommaso C Bulfone, Andrea Nickerson, A. Habib, T. Junghanss, H. W. Fan, Michael Turner, R. Harrison, D. Warrell   +11 more
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Malaria and Parasitic Neglected Tropical Diseases: Potential Syndemics with COVID-19?

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020
. The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, have surpassed 5 million cases globally. Current models suggest that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) will have a similar incidence but substantially lower mortality rate than high-income countries ...
J. Gutman, N. Lucchi, P. Cantey, L. Steinhardt, Aaron M. Samuels, M. Kamb, B. Kapella, P. Mcelroy, V. Udhayakumar, K. Lindblade   +9 more
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Climate change, malaria and neglected tropical diseases: a scoping review

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
To explore the effects of climate change on malaria and 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), and potential effect amelioration through mitigation and adaptation, we searched for papers published from January 2010 to October 2023.
P. Klepac, J. L. Hsieh, Camilla L Ducker, Mohamad Assoum, Mark Booth, I. Byrne, Sarity Dodson, Diana L Martin, C. Turner, K. V. van Daalen, Bernadette Abela, Jennifer Akamboe, Fabiana Alves, Simon J Brooker, Karen Ciceri-Reynolds, Jeremy Cole, Aidan Desjardins, Chris J. Drakeley, D. Ediriweera, Neil M Ferguson, A. Gabrielli, J. Gahir, Saurabh Jain, M. R. John, Elizabeth Juma, Priya Kanayson, Kebede Deribe, Jonathan D King, A. M. Kipingu, Samson S. Kiware, Jan H Kolaczinski, Winnie J Kulei, Tajiri L Laizer, Vivek Lal, Rachel Lowe, Janice S Maige, Sam Mayer, L. McIver, J. Mosser, R. Nicholls, Cláudio Nunes-Alves, Junaid Panjwani, Nishanth Parameswaran, Karen Polson, Hale-Seda Radoykova, Aditya Ramani, Lisa J. Reimer, Zachary Reynolds, Isabela Ribeiro, A. Robb, K. Sanikullah, David R. M. Smith, G. Shirima, J. Shott, R. Tidman, Louisa Tribe, J. Turner, Susana Vaz Nery, Raman Velayudhan, Supriya Warusavithana, Holly S Wheeler, Aya Yajima, Ahmed Robleh Abdilleh, B. Hounkpatin, Dechen Wangmo, C. Whitty, D. Campbell-Lendrum, T. D. Hollingsworth, A. Solomon, I. Fall   +69 more
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