Sustaining the drive to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases : second WHO report on neglected tropical diseases

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Hauptverfasser: World Health Organization. Dept. of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Savioli, Lorenzo, Daumerie, Denis, Crompton, D. W. T. (David William Thomasson), Chan, Margaret
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Geneva World Health Organization 2013
Ausgabe:1
Schlagworte:
Communicable diseases
Developing countries
Neglected Diseases
Parasitic Diseases
Poverty Areas
Prevention
Tropical medicine
Tropical Medicine > trends
ISBN:9789241564540, 9241564547
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  • Cover -- Contents -- FOREWORD BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION -- SUMMARY -- 1 THE GLOBAL PUBLIC-HEALTH AGENDA NOW EMBRACES NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES -- 1.1 Recent developments in prevention and control -- 1.2 The roadmap and the London declaration -- 1.3 Opportunities for public-health programmes -- 1.4 Costs of expanding activities -- 1.5 WHO and the roadmap's targets -- REFERENCES -- 2 REACHING THE ROADMAP'S TARGETS -- 2.1 Practical definitions of eradication, elimination and control -- 2.2 Obstacles and risks to achieving targets -- 2.2.1 Conflicts and population displacement -- 2.2.2 Population growth -- 2.2.3 Vector control -- 2.2.4 Resistance to medicines and pesticides -- 2.2.5 Insufficient capacity for scaling up -- 2.2.6 Expectations overtaking science -- 2.2.7 Inadequate support for research -- 2.2.8 Climate change -- REFERENCES -- 3 DISEASES -- REFERENCES -- WOMEN, CHILDREN AND NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES -- Biological consequences -- Sociocultural consequences -- Stigma -- REFERENCES -- 3.1 Dengue -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.2 Rabies -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.3 Trachoma -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.4 Buruli ulcer -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.5 Endemic treponematoses -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.6 Leprosy -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.7 Chagas disease -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES
  • Annex 2 Medicines for controlling neglected tropical diseases donated by the pharmaceutical industry -- Annex 3a: Targets and milestones for eliminating and eradicating neglected tropical diseases, 2015-2020 -- Annex 3b: Targets and milestones for intensifying control of neglected tropical diseases, 2015-2020 -- Annex 4 Operational definitions and indicators for eradication targets and elimination targets as defined in the roadmap for implementation (Annex 3a) -- Annex 5 Methods used to prepare maps and charts
  • 3.8 Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.9 Leishmaniases -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.10 Taeniasis/cysticercosis -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.11 Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease) -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.12 Echinococcosis -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.13 Foodborne trematodiases -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.14 Lymphatic filariasis -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.15 Onchocerciasis (river blindness) -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.16 Schistosomiasis -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 3.17 Soil-transmitted helminthiases -- Introduction -- Distribution -- Impact -- Strategy (roadmap targets and milestones) -- REFERENCES -- 4 KEY INTERVENTIONS: SITUATION REPORT -- 4.1 Preventive chemotherapy -- REFERENCES -- 4.2 Innovative and intensified disease-management -- 4.3 Vector control -- REFERENCES -- 4.4 Safe water, sanitation and hygiene -- REFERENCES -- 4.5 Veterinary public-health services to control neglected zoonotic diseases -- REFERENCES -- 4.6 Capacity strengthening -- REFERENCES -- ANNEXES -- Annex 1 Resolutions of the World Health Assembly (WHA) concerning neglected tropical diseases, 1948-2012