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Strategies supporting the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
Emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases represent a public health challenge of international concern. They include a large group of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), many of which are of zoonotic nature. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), another emerging zoonotic disease, has just increased...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7347419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32646512 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00701-7 |
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author | Ehrenberg, John P. Zhou, Xiao-Nong Fontes, Gilberto Rocha, Eliana M. M. Tanner, Marcel Utzinger, Jürg |
author_facet | Ehrenberg, John P. Zhou, Xiao-Nong Fontes, Gilberto Rocha, Eliana M. M. Tanner, Marcel Utzinger, Jürg |
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description | Emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases represent a public health challenge of international concern. They include a large group of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), many of which are of zoonotic nature. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), another emerging zoonotic disease, has just increased the stakes exponentially. Most NTDs are subject to the impact of some of the very same human-related activities triggering other emerging and re-emerging diseases, including COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), bird flu and swine flu. It is conceivable that COVID-19 will exacerbate the NTDs, as it will divert much needed financial and human resources. There is considerable concern that recent progress achieved with control and elimination efforts will be reverted. Future potential strategies will need to reconsider the determinants of health in NTDs in order to galvanize efforts and come up with a comprehensive, well defined programme that will set the stage for an effective multi-sectorial approach. In this Commentary, we propose areas of potential synergies between the COVID-19 pandemic control efforts, other health and non-health sector initiatives and NTD control and elimination programmes. |
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spelling | pubmed-73474192020-07-10 Strategies supporting the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic Ehrenberg, John P. Zhou, Xiao-Nong Fontes, Gilberto Rocha, Eliana M. M. Tanner, Marcel Utzinger, Jürg Infect Dis Poverty Commentary Emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases represent a public health challenge of international concern. They include a large group of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), many of which are of zoonotic nature. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), another emerging zoonotic disease, has just increased the stakes exponentially. Most NTDs are subject to the impact of some of the very same human-related activities triggering other emerging and re-emerging diseases, including COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), bird flu and swine flu. It is conceivable that COVID-19 will exacerbate the NTDs, as it will divert much needed financial and human resources. There is considerable concern that recent progress achieved with control and elimination efforts will be reverted. Future potential strategies will need to reconsider the determinants of health in NTDs in order to galvanize efforts and come up with a comprehensive, well defined programme that will set the stage for an effective multi-sectorial approach. In this Commentary, we propose areas of potential synergies between the COVID-19 pandemic control efforts, other health and non-health sector initiatives and NTD control and elimination programmes. BioMed Central 2020-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7347419/ /pubmed/32646512 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00701-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Ehrenberg, John P. Zhou, Xiao-Nong Fontes, Gilberto Rocha, Eliana M. M. Tanner, Marcel Utzinger, Jürg Strategies supporting the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Strategies supporting the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Strategies supporting the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Strategies supporting the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Strategies supporting the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Strategies supporting the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | strategies supporting the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases during and beyond the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7347419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32646512 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00701-7 |
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