End NTDs, the conference attracted 469 delegates from 54 countries across five continents
to discuss strategies to accelerate the achievement of targets set in WHO's global neglected …

Objective To conduct a nationwide integrated neglected tropical disease (NTD) prevalence
survey to define the need for public health interventions using an innovative mapping …

Current WHO guidelines set prevalence thresholds below which a neglected tropical
disease can be considered to have been eliminated as a public health problem, and specify …

Background Years of advocacy for the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have focused the
world's attention on these diseases of the poor, resulting most recently in the 2012 “London …

Preventive chemotherapy for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is implemented through
mass drug administration (MDA) to eligible populations in NTD-endemic areas on the …

Background: There is a high burden of morbidity due to neglected tropical diseases. To help
address this, the World Health Organization recommends integration of case management …

Background Preventive chemotherapy in this context is defined as the administration of a
single safe medicine, either alone or in combination with other medicines, as a public health …

Background Neglected Tropical Diseases amenable to Preventive Chemotherapy (PC-
NTDs) affect the poorest populations around the world, especially in Africa. Scientific …

Lymphatic filariasis (LF) and onchocerciasis are two neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) of
public health significance targeted for global elimination. The World Health Organization …

The second edition of this book has been necessitated by some advances in the field of
neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) since 2016 when the first edition was published …