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An Interfaith Dialogue on the Neglected Tropical Diseases 英文参考文献
Editorial
AnInterfaithDialogueontheNeglectedTropical
Diseases
PeterJ.Hotez1,2*,SerapAksoy3*
1SabinVaccineInstituteandTexasChildren’sHospitalCenterforVaccineDevelopment,BaylorCollegeofMedicine,Houston,Texas,UnitedStatesofAmerica,2National
SchoolofTropicalMedicineatBaylorCollegeofMedicine,Houston,Texas,UnitedStatesofAmerica, 3YaleSchoolofPublicHealth,NewHaven,Connecticut,United
StatesofAmerica
Most of the world’s neglected tropical diseases
occur among populations that adhere to Islam,
Catholicism, or Hinduism, an observation that
while India, a Hindu-majority country,
accounts for 12%–17% of the intestinal
helminthdiseasecasesinadditionto41%
oftheglobalregisteredleprosycasesanda
significantburdenoftrachoma[6].
twice yearly and at a cost that averages
US$0.50perpersonannually[1,2,15,16].
Currently,
support for these low-cost
affords
opportunities
to
establish
interfaithdialogueandglobalaction.
a
unique
packages has been largely limited to the
governments of the United States and
United Kingdom as well as some private
philanthropies [16,17], but there is an
urgent need to expand global support in
order to provide MDA for all of the
bottombillionatriskfortheNTDs.Multi-
drug therapy (MDT) for leprosy also
represents a low-cost intervention that
could lead to the elimination of that
disease [15]. For hookworm and schisto-
somiasis, new vaccines are in develop-
ment, which might also lead to the
eliminationoftheseconditions[18].
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
represent a group of 17 high prevalence
and chronic parasitic and related infec-
tions [1–3]. They are the most common
infections of the world’s poorest people,
especially among the ‘‘bottom billion’’,
whichreferstothe1.4billionpeoplewho
live below the World Bank poverty level
[2]. The NTDs also disproportionately
occur in the world’s low- and middle-
incomecountries(LMICs)ofsub-Saharan
Africa [4], Asia [5,6], and Latin America
andtheCaribbean[7],althoughtheycan
also affect the poorest people
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