How modelling can help steer the course set by the World Health Organization 2021-2030 roadmap on neglected tropical diseases
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The World Health Organization recently launched its 2021-2030 roadmap, Ending the Neglect to Attain Sustainable Development Goals, an updated call arms end suffering caused by neglected tropical diseases. Modelling and quantitative analyses played a significant role in forming these latest goals. In this collection, we discuss insights, resulting recommendations identified challenges of public health modelling for 13 target diseases: Chagas disease, dengue, gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT), lymphatic filariasis (LF), onchocerciasis, rabies, scabies, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH), Taenia solium taeniasis/ cysticercosis, trachoma, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) yaws. This piece reflects three cross-cutting themes across regarding contribution that can make timelines, programme design, drug development clinical trials.
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عنوان ژورنال: Gates open research
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2572-4754']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.13327.2