Background A myriad of new tools and algorithms have been developed to help public
health professionals analyze and visualize the complex data used in infectious disease …

Background Schistosomiasis affects more than 200 million individuals, mostly in sub-
Saharan Africa, but empirical estimates of the disease burden in this region are unavailable …

Background Quantifying the burden of parasitic diseases in relation to other diseases and
injuries requires reliable estimates of prevalence for each disease and an analytic …

It is widely accepted that the main driver of the observed decline in biological diversity is
increasing human pressure on Earth's ecosystems. However, the spatial patterns of change …

Improvements of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure and appropriate
health-seeking behavior are necessary for achieving sustained control, elimination, or …

Background Interest is growing in predictive risk mapping for neglected tropical diseases
(NTDs), particularly to scale up preventive chemotherapy, surveillance, and elimination …

Background The four common soil-transmitted helminth species—Ascaris lumbricoides,
Trichuris trichiura, and the two hookworm species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator …

The Kato-Katz technique is the most widely used diagnostic method in epidemiologic
surveys and drug efficacy trials pertaining to intestinal schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted …

Background The London Declaration on neglected tropical diseases was based in part on a
new World Health Organization roadmap to “sustain, expand and extend drug access …

Among all of the African nations, Nigeria has the greatest number of people infected with
neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). With the right political will, the country has sufficient …