Control of neglected tropical diseases in Burundi: partnerships, achievements, challenges, and lessons learned after four years of programme implementation
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Ndayishimiye, Onésime
Ortu, Giuseppina
Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo
Willems, Johan
Whitton, Jane
Lancaster, Warren
Hopkins, Adrian
Fenwick, Alan
Clements, Archie
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Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are
a group of 17 conditions that together
affect over 1,000,000,000 people in the
developing world. Nongovernmental
organisations (NGOs) and public-private
partnerships have joined efforts to place
the NTDs in the spotlight, especially the
seven that can be treated with an annual
dose of safe and effective drugs: trachoma,
three soil-transmitted helminthiases (STHs,
ascariasis, hookworm infections, and trichuriasis),
lymphatic filariasis (LF), onchocerciasis,
and schistosomiasis (SCH). On
the wave of this new interest in NTDs,
Burundi was selected in 2007 by the
Legatum Foundation for financial support
for a national NTD programme.
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