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Study Shows How to Keep a Check on Neglected Tropical Diseases
The study, authored by Dr Bernhard Liese from Georgetown University, Washington and colleagues, revealed that lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis (river blindness), soil-transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, and trachoma comprise the five most common NTDs.
Other than the above five, there are many more NTDs that cause in total, around half-a-million deaths and 57 million disability-adjusted life years each year.
"Social stigma, prejudice, marginalisation, extreme poverty of afflicted populations, and low mortality are several factors contributing to the neglect of these diseases. Their prevalence in specific geographical and environmental conditions outside the developed world and their insignificant market share for pharmaceutical business further reduces these diseases' prominence in the global health debate," the Lancet quoted the authors as saying.
Furthermore, they point out that, while an exclusive innovative financing mechanism was set up for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis in the form of the Global Fund, funding for NTDs remained limited to a few donors.
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