@article{28259,
  keywords = {Virus Diseases, Tropical Medicine, Public health, Parasitic Diseases, Humans, Biomedical Research, Bacterial Infections},
  author = {Hotez P and Pecoul B},
  title = {"Manifesto" for advancing the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases.},
  abstract = {<p>Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the most common infections of the world’s poorest people and the leading causes of chronic disability and poverty in low- and middle-income countries [1–3]. NTDs (Table 1) especially affect children and young women of reproductive age [4], and consequently deprive them of their health and economic potential [3]. NTDs also impair agricultural productivity and are an important reason why the world’s poorest 1.4 billion people who live below the poverty line cannot escape destitution and despair [3]. Despite the devastating effect of these diseases on health and development, with evidence that their global burden is as great as that of any other serious disease [1–3], financial support for control and elimination efforts, as well as research and development (R&amp;D), have been inadequate [2,5]. Indeed, in Millennium Development Goal 6 (to ‘‘combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases’’), NTDs were not even specifically mentioned but merely considered as part of the ‘‘other diseases’’ [6]. However, policy makers are slowly beginning to appreciate the importance of NTDs.</p>
},
  year = {2010},
  journal = {PLoS neglected tropical diseases},
  volume = {4},
  pages = {e718},
  issn = {1935-2735},
  url = {http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000718.PDF},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pntd.0000718},
  language = {eng},
}