TY - JOUR KW - Tropical Medicine KW - Tropical Climate KW - Neglected Diseases KW - International Cooperation KW - India KW - Humans KW - Communicable Diseases KW - Communicable Disease Control KW - China AU - Hotez P AU - Singh SK AU - Zhou X AB -

In 2005 India, Nepal, and Bangladesh signed a landmark agreement to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis in South Asia. There is an exciting opportunity for India and China to also engage in international science diplomacy for controlling or eliminating the major neglected tropical diseases in their two countries, and thereby reducing the global NTD burden by up to 40% or more.

BT - PLoS neglected tropical diseases C1 -

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24086775?dopt=Abstract

DO - 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002204 IS - 9 J2 - PLoS Negl Trop Dis LA - eng M3 - Editorial N2 -

In 2005 India, Nepal, and Bangladesh signed a landmark agreement to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis in South Asia. There is an exciting opportunity for India and China to also engage in international science diplomacy for controlling or eliminating the major neglected tropical diseases in their two countries, and thereby reducing the global NTD burden by up to 40% or more.

PY - 2013 EP - e2204 T2 - PLoS neglected tropical diseases TI - Advancing Sino-Indian cooperation to combat tropical diseases. UR - http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0002204.PDF VL - 7 SN - 1935-2735 ER -