01645nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001653003900042653001500081100001200096700001200108245013200120856009800252300001300350490000700363520109100370022001401461       2017                            d10aNeglected tropical diseases (NTDs)10aPrevalence1 aHotez P1 aAksoy S00aPLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: Ten years of progress in neglected tropical disease control and elimination … More or less.  uhttp://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0005355&type=printable  ae00053550 v113 a<p>This year PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLOS NTDs) celebrates its tenth anniversary following the publication of the first issue in 2007. When PLOS NTDs was founded, the framework of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) as an alternative to "other diseases" (as they were then referred to in the Millennium Development Goals) was just getting started-especially for Africa. In the decade since, PLOS NTDs has overseen enormous successes in NTD control and elimination. Here, we want to briefly review the ten year progress made towards the control or elimination of the diseases now identified by the WHO as NTDs. Many of the details are highlighted in PLOS NTDs papers cited here, but the summary information is based on the recently released Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2015 (also launched with Gates Foundation support) that summarized past-decade changes in disease prevalence, mortality, or disability rates (from the years 2005 to 2015), as well as the GBD Study 2013 that summarizes disease prevalence changes over a longer time horizon from 1990 to 2013.</p>
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