Novel Financing Model for Neglected Tropical Diseases: Development Impact Bonds Applied to Sleeping Sickness and Rabies Control

Susan Christina Welburn; Kevin Louis Bardosh; Paul Gerard Coleman

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005000

Novel Financing Model for Neglected Tropical Diseases: Development Impact Bonds Applied to Sleeping Sickness and Rabies Control

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Nov 17;10(11):e0005000. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005000. eCollection 2016 Nov.

Authors

Susan Christina Welburn¹, Kevin Louis Bardosh¹, Paul Gerard Coleman^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, United Kingdom.
² Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom.
³ H2O Venture Partners, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Humans
Models, Economic*
Neglected Diseases / economics*
Neglected Diseases / prevention & control*
Rabies / prevention & control*
Time Factors
Tropical Medicine / economics
Trypanosomiasis, African / prevention & control*

Grants and funding

We thank the UK Department for International Development (DFID) for supporting this work through the Research and Evidence Division (SW, KB, PC). We thank UBS Optimus (PC) and Research into Results/The University of Edinburgh for funding work on DIBs for the control of rabies (SW, PC). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.