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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 — ascariasis, trichuriasis, hookworm infection, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, and onchocerciasis — 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 the World Health Organization (WHO), partnerships are coordinating . . . [Full Text of this Article]

"Other Diseases"

Preventive Chemotherapy

Integration of Control

The Need for New Tools of Control

Public Policy for Integrated Control

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From the Sabin Vaccine Institute, and George Washington University, Washington, DC (P.J.H.); Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre and the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, Liverpool, United Kingdom (D.H.M.); the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College London, London (A.F.); the International Trachoma Initiative, New York (J.K.); the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York (S.E.S., J.D.S.); and the Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva (L.S.).

Address reprint requests to Dr. Hotez at the Sabin Vaccine Institute and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University, Ross Hall 736, 2300 Eye St., NW, Washington, DC 20037, or at mtmpjh@gwumc.edu.

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Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Huppatz C., Durrheim D. N., Molyneux D., Fenwick A., Savioli L.
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N Engl J Med 2007; 357:2407-2408, Dec 6, 2007. Correspondence

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