While global programs targeting the control or elimination of five of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) - lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis and trachoma - are well underway, they still face many operational challenges. Because of the urgency of 2020 program targets, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development devised a novel rapid research response (RRR) framework to engage national programs, researchers, implementers and WHO in a Coalition for Operational Research on NTDs. After 2 years, this effort has succeeded as an important basis for the research response to programmatic challenges facing NTD programs.
BT - International health DO - 10.1093/inthealth/ihv072 IS - suppl 1 J2 - Int. Health LA - eng M3 - Commentary N2 -While global programs targeting the control or elimination of five of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) - lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis and trachoma - are well underway, they still face many operational challenges. Because of the urgency of 2020 program targets, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development devised a novel rapid research response (RRR) framework to engage national programs, researchers, implementers and WHO in a Coalition for Operational Research on NTDs. After 2 years, this effort has succeeded as an important basis for the research response to programmatic challenges facing NTD programs.
PY - 2016 SP - 12 EP - 14 T2 - International health TI - RRR for NNN—a rapid research response for the Neglected Tropical Disease NGDO Network: a novel framework to challenges faced by the global programs targeting neglected tropical diseases: Box 1. UR - http://inthealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/suppl_1/i12.full.pdf+html VL - 8 SN - 1876-3413 ER -