Forgotten people, forgotten diseases
Subtitle: the neglected tropical diseases and their impact on global health and development
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: E-book
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781555818753
Copyright date: 2013
Description: "The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the most common infections of the world's poor, but few people know about these diseases and why they are so important. This book provides an overview of the NTDs and how they devastate the poor, essentially trapping them in a vicious cycle of extreme poverty by preventing them from working or attaining their full intellectual and cognitive development. The author highlights a new opportunity to control and perhaps eliminate these ancient scourges, through alliances between nongovernmental development organizations and private-public partnerships to create a successful environment for mass drug administration and product development activities."--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the neglected tropical diseases : the ancient afflictions of stigma and poverty; title: "The unholy trinity" : the soil-transmitted helminth infections ascariasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm infection; title: Schistosomiasis (snail fever); title: The filarial infections : lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and dracunculiasis (guinea worm); title: The blinding neglected tropical diseases : onchocerciasis (river blindness) and trachoma; title: The mycobacterial infections : buruli ulcer and leprosy; title: The kinetoplastid infections : human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), chagas disease, and the leishmaniases; title: The urban neglected tropical diseases : leptospirosis, dengue, and rabies; title: The neglected tropical diseases of North America; title: The global network for neglected tropical diseases; title: Future trends in control of neglected tropical diseases and the antipoverty vaccines; title: Repairing the world