Scientific Editorials & Journals

5.5.09
A Comparative Study of the Spatial Distribution of Schistosomiasis in Mali in 1984–1989 and 2004–2006
[Authors] investigated changes in the spatial distribution of schistosomiasis in Mali following a decade of donor-funded control and a further 12 years without control.
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5.5.09
Australia's Dengue Risk Driven by Human Adaptation to Climate Change
The reduced rainfall in southeast Australia has placed this region's urban and rural communities on escalating water restrictions, with anthropogenic climate change forecasts suggesting that this dryi
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4.30.09
Rescuing the Bottom Billion Through Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
People in the bottom billion are the poorest in the world; they are often subsistence farmers, who essentially live on no money and are stuck in a poverty trap of disease, conflict, and no education.
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4.29.09
One World Health: Neglected Tropical Diseases in a Flat World
In The World Is Flat and his other landmark books on globalization, journalist, columnist, and author Thomas Friedman eloquently articulates the prospect of a new world order and economy as a consequence of emerging new technologies, business practices, and world events.
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3.31.09
Successful Interruption of Transmission of Onchocerca volvulus in the Escuintla-Guatemala Focus, Guatemala
Elimination of onchocerciasis (river blindness) through mass administration of ivermectin in the six countries in Latin America where it is endemic is considered feasible due to the relatively small s
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3.27.09
Strongyloidiasis – the most neglected of the neglected tropical diseases?
Soil-transmitted helminths of the genus Strongyloides (S. fuelleborni and the more prevalent S. stercoralis) are currently believed to infect an estimated 30—100 million people worldwide. The health consequences of S. stercoralis infections range from asymptomatic light infections to chronic symptomatic strongyloidiasis.
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3.27.09
Antifilarial drugs, in doses employed in MDAs by the GPELF, Reverse Lymphatic Pathology in Children with Brugia Malayi Infection
Lymphatic filariasis is increasingly viewed as the result of an infection that is often acquired in childhood. The lymphatic pathology that occurs in the disease is generally believed to be irreversible. In a recent study in India,
Doppler ultrasonography and lymphoscintigraphy were used to explore subclinical pathology in 100 children from an area endemic for Brugia malayi infection.
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3.25.09
Mass Drug Administration and Integrated Control for the World's High-Prevalence Neglected Tropical Diseases
This year, through mass drug administration, hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people will receive a single annual dose of one or more drugs to treat their parasitic worm infections or trachoma, conditions also known as the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
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3.19.09
Eliminating Neglected Diseases in Poor Countries: A Conversation with Andrew Witty
GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, has long been among the most globally oriented of pharmaceutical companies.
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3.4.09
Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The NTDs and Their Impact on Global Health and Development, by Peter J. Hotez
Much of the world's population remains at risk of tropical diseases, and millions of individuals die each year. Many of these diseases are neglected through lack of progress in development of treatments and control programs, because they affect the poorest of the world's poor (p 11).
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2.24.09
Social Research on Neglected Diseases of Poverty: Continuing and Emerging Themes
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) exist and persist for social and economic reasons that enable the vectors and pathogens to take advantage of changes in the behavioral and physical environment.
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2.17.09
Local and Global Effects of Climate on Dengue Transmission in Puerto Rico
Using 20 years of data and a statistical approach to control for seasonality, we show a positive and statistically significant association between monthly changes in temperature and precipitation and monthly changes in dengue transmission in Puerto Rico.
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2.14.09
10 Years of Success in Addressing Lymphatic Filariasis
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the SmithKlineBeecham (now GlaxoSmithKline) donation of albendazole for the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis.
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2.10.09
Rapid mapping of schistosomiasis and other neglected tropical diseases in the context of integrated control programmes in Africa
There is growing interest and commitment to the control of schistosomiasis and other so-called neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
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2.3.09
Neglected Disease Research and Development: How Much Are We Really Spending?
The need for new pharmaceutical tools to prevent and treat neglected diseases is widely accepted. However, funders wishing to invest in this vitally important area currently face an information gap.
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1.31.09
Filaria Control and Elimination: Diagnostic, Monitoring and Surveillance Needs
Gold standard diagnosis using blood films or skin snips has dimished relevance as mass drug distribution programmes for control of filaria infections expand.
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1.27.09
Waging Peace through neglected tropical disease control: a U.S. Foreign Policy for the bottom billion
It comes as no surprise that poverty breeds political instability, and some of the most troubled regions on our planet are disproportionately represented by nations with large numbers of people who live on less than US$1 per day.
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1.26.09
Improving Control of African Schistosomiasis
Contemporary control of schistosomiasis is typically reliant upon large-scale administration of praziquantel (PZQ) to school age children.
[A]t the national level where many schools are targeted, maximising cost effectiveness and the health impact are essential requirements for ensuring longer-term sustainability (i.e. >5 years).
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1.24.09
Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM)
An Open letter to the Board of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM), the Technical Review Panels of GFATM , the Executive Director of the Global Fund and the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Malaria of the United Nations
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1.23.09
Strategic Implications of Global Health
This report builds on a 2000 National Intelligence Estimate, Global Infectious Disease Threat and its Implications for the United States.
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1.16.09
Comparing community-directed treatment versus school-based treatment for intestinal worm infections in Tanzanian schoolchildren
This study compared the effect of the community-directed treatment (ComDT)
approach and the school-based treatment approach on the prevalence and intensity of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) among schoolchildren.
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