TY - JOUR
KW - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
KW - Infectious Diseases
KW - Covid-19
AU - Chaumont C
AU - Kamara K
AU - Baring E
AU - Palacio K
AU - Power A
AU - Lancaster W
AU - Van Weyenbergh J
AB - Introduction
The current global priority is to protect people from attaining the COVID-19 infection and to attend to those infected, resulting in the disruption of other activities of the health sector, such as neglected tropical disease (NTD) control and elimination programs, which, across the globe, have postponed mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns. The impact of this disruption, combined with that of the pandemic, will ripple for years to come. This commentary reflects on how the current crisis modifies the future of the NTD sector focused on the five diseases treated through preventative chemotherapy (often called PC-NTDs): soil-transmitted helminths, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, and trachoma.
BT - PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
DO - 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008680
IS - 9
LA - eng
N2 - Introduction
The current global priority is to protect people from attaining the COVID-19 infection and to attend to those infected, resulting in the disruption of other activities of the health sector, such as neglected tropical disease (NTD) control and elimination programs, which, across the globe, have postponed mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns. The impact of this disruption, combined with that of the pandemic, will ripple for years to come. This commentary reflects on how the current crisis modifies the future of the NTD sector focused on the five diseases treated through preventative chemotherapy (often called PC-NTDs): soil-transmitted helminths, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, and trachoma.
PB - Public Library of Science (PLoS)
PY - 2020
EP - e0008680
T2 - PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
TI - The SARS-CoV-2 crisis and its impact on neglected tropical diseases: Threat or opportunity?
UR - https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0008680&type=printable
VL - 14
SN - 1935-2735
ER -