@article{28320,
  keywords = {Tropical Medicine, Neglected Diseases, Humans, Communicable Disease Control, Burundi},
  author = {Ndayishimiye O and Ortu G and Soares Magalhaes R and Clements AC A and Willems J and Whitton J and Lancaster W and Hopkins A and Fenwick A},
  title = {Control of neglected tropical diseases in Burundi: partnerships, achievements, challenges, and lessons learned after four years of programme implementation.},
  abstract = {<p>Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of 17 conditions that together affect over 1,000,000,000 people in the developing world <a class="ref-tip" href="http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0002684#pntd.0002684-World1">[1]</a>. Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and public-private partnerships have joined efforts to place the NTDs in the spotlight, especially the seven that can be treated with an annual dose of safe and effective drugs: trachoma, three soil-transmitted helminthiases (STHs, ascariasis, hookworm infections, and trichuriasis), lymphatic filariasis (LF), onchocerciasis, and schistosomiasis (SCH) <a class="ref-tip" href="http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0002684#pntd.0002684-Hotez1">[2]</a>. On the wave of this new interest in NTDs, Burundi was selected in 2007 by the Legatum Foundation for financial support for a national NTD programme.</p>
},
  year = {2014},
  journal = {PLoS neglected tropical diseases},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {e2684},
  issn = {1935-2735},
  url = {http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0002684.PDF},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pntd.0002684},
  language = {eng},
}