01806nas a2200289   4500000000100000008004100001653002200042653002300064653001100087653003300098653001200131100001900143700001100162700002300173700001800196700001400214700001400228700001600242700001400258700001400272245016100286856009000447300001000537490000600547520094900553022001401502       2014                            d10aTropical Medicine10aNeglected Diseases10aHumans10aCommunicable Disease Control10aBurundi1 aNdayishimiye O1 aOrtu G1 aSoares Magalhaes R1 aClements AC A1 aWillems J1 aWhitton J1 aLancaster W1 aHopkins A1 aFenwick A00aControl of neglected tropical diseases in Burundi: partnerships, achievements, challenges, and lessons learned after four years of programme implementation.  uhttp://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0002684.PDF  ae26840 v83 a<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>
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