Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases (eBook)
256 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-68367-389-7 (ISBN)
Professor Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, one of the founders of the NTD movement, discusses how the NTD space evolved and control was implemented against these ancient scourges, through alliances between nongovernmental development organizations and private-public partnerships. Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases also
* Reports on the health and economic effects of the NTDs, and the challenges of measuring diseases that do not always kill, but adversely affect productivity, child development, pregnancy outcome, and economic development.
* Lays a roadmap for continued control of existing and newly identified NTDs and spotlights potential opportunities for reducing global poverty and "repairing the world."
* Describes a global initiative to provide annual mass drug administration for more than one billion people affected by NTDs.
* Highlights the role of innovation and product development partnerships for new treatments and vaccines.
* Explains how science and vaccine diplomacy ensure that a new generation of biotechnologies reaches the world's poorest people.
Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases remains an essential resource for anyone seeking insight into global advocacy coordination and mobilization of resources to combat NTDs and continues to tell the story of the world's people who live in extreme poverty and what it means for them to live with these devastating diseases.
"Like Dr. Hotez, I have struggled with how to best get the word out about our need to address NTDs and their link to poverty. Now he has provided us all with a remarkable tool, a book for people without an extensive scientific or medical background. Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases is an excellent 'one-stop' primer about NTDs."--Soledad O'Brien, Host, Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, is an internationally-recognized physician-scientist in NTDs and vaccine development. Professor Hotez is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, codirector of the Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development, Texas Children's Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, and the founding Editorin-Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, among other appointments. "Like Dr. Hotez, I have struggled with how to best get the word out about our need to address NTDs and their link to poverty. Now he has provided us all with a remarkable tool, a book for people without an extensive scientific or medical background. Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases is an excellent 'one-stop' primer about NTDs." --Soledad O'Brien, Host, Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Neglected Tropical Diseases: the Ancient Afflictions of Stigma and Poverty 1
Chapter 2 "The Unholy Trinity": the Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections Ascariasis, Trichuriasis, and Hookworm Infection 17
Chapter 3 Schistosomiasis (Snail Fever) and the Food-borne Trematodiases 39
Chapter 4 Elephantiasis: Lymphatic Filariasis, Endemic Nonfilarial Elephantiasis (Podoconiosis), and Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm) 55
Chapter 5 The Blinding Neglected Tropical Diseases: Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) and Trachoma 75
Chapter 6 The Mycobacterial Infections: Buruli Ulcer and Leprosy 95
Chapter 7 The Kinetoplastid Infections: Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness), American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease), and the Leishmaniases 111
Chapter 8 The Urban Neglected Tropical Diseases: Leptospirosis, Dengue and Zika, and Rabies 143
Chapter 9 The Neglected Tropical Diseases of North America 159
Chapter 10 Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, and a New WHO Roadmap (2021-2030) 181
Chapter 11 Future Trends in Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Antipoverty Vaccines 203
Chapter 12 The Newest NTDs and a Plea to "Repair the World" 217
Appendix: What Are the Neglected Tropical Diseases? 227
Index 229
About the Author 239
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.9.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | ASM | ASM |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
Schlagworte | Krankheit • Medical Science • Medizin • Microbiology • Mikrobiologie • Mikrobiologie u. Virologie • Reise- u. Tropenmedizin • Travel / Tropical Medicine • Tropenkrankheit |
ISBN-10 | 1-68367-389-1 / 1683673891 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-68367-389-7 / 9781683673897 |
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