World neglected tropical diseases day

Peter J Hotez; Serap Aksoy; Paul J Brindley; Shaden Kamhawi

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007999

World neglected tropical diseases day

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Jan 29;14(1):e0007999. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007999. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Peter J Hotez^{1

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5}, Serap Aksoy⁶, Paul J Brindley⁷, Shaden Kamhawi⁸

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America.
² Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America.
³ Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States of America.
⁴ James A Baker III Institute of Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America.
⁵ Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States of America.
⁷ Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America.
⁸ Vector Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America.

Abstract

January 30, 2020 is the first-ever World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day (World NTD Day), a day when we celebrate the achievements made towards control of the world's NTDs, yet recognize the daunting challenges we face in the control and elimination of these conditions.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

MeSH terms

Bacterial Infections / prevention & control*
Disease Eradication
Global Health*
Neglected Diseases / epidemiology*
Neglected Diseases / etiology
Parasitic Diseases / prevention & control*
Tropical Climate
Virus Diseases / prevention & control*
World Health Organization / organization & administration*

Grants and funding

The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. This work was partly supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.