CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS The editors of Infectious Diseases of Poverty would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in volume 4 (2015).

The right to health as a fundamental human right is enshrined in the World Health Organization's charter and has been reaffirmed in international agreements spanning decades. This new journal reminds us of the essential characteristic of poverty as a violent abuse of human rights. The context of poverty - its social, political and economic dimensions - remain in the reader's mind as evidence is...

BACKGROUND The lack of effective use of research evidence in policy-making is a major challenge in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is need to package research data into effective policy tools that will help policy-makers to make evidence-informed policy regarding infectious diseases of poverty (IDP). The objective of this study was to assess the usefulness of training works...

The Infectious Diseases of Poverty journal, launched a year ago, is a platform to engage outside the traditional disciplinary boundaries, and disseminate high quality science towards the improvement of health. This paper reviews the milestone achievements during its first year of operation. The journal has filled an important niche, addressing some of the main priorities in the Global Report fo...

Significant progress has been made in the prevention, control, and elimination of human parasitic diseases in China in the past 60 years. However, parasitic diseases of poverty remain major causes of morbidity and mortality, and inflict enormous economic costs on societies.In this article, we review the prevalence rates, geographical distributions, epidemic characteristics, risk factors, and cl...

Poverty, infectious diseases, and human development have been, and continue to be, closely intertwined. Therefore, The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID) is pleased to join a worldwide effort organized by the Council of Science Editors to put special emphasis on global poverty and human development during the month of October 2007. A special supplement to JID is being published this month, on...

In 2008 the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) commissioned ten think-tanks to work on disease-specific and thematic reference groups to identify top research priorities that would advance the research agenda on infectious diseases of poverty, thus contributing to improvements in human health. The first of the thematic reference gro...

background: although infectious diseases are the most common sources for the fever of unknown origin (fuo), but the spectrum of infectious diseases is changing overtime. the purpose of the study was to define the clinical spectrum and changing the pattern of fuo.methods: this existing data based study was undertaken from 2007 to 2011. one hundred-six patients fulfilling the modified criteria fo...