Combating the "other diseases" of MDG 6: changing the paradigm to achieve equity and poverty reduction?

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 509-519

  Molyneux, David H ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease control; Disease eradication; Health policy; Millennium Development Goals; Neglected tropical diseases

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; INSECTICIDE; IVERMECTIN; LEPROSTATIC AGENT; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ARTICLE; BED NET; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRACUNCULIASIS; DRUG EFFICACY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FILARIASIS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LEPROSY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK REDUCTION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GOALS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PARASITIC DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL MEDICINE; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 43349087497     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.02.024     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Al-Awadi A.R., Karam M.V., Molyneux D.H., and Breman J.G. The other 'neglected' eradication programme: achieving the final mile for Guinea worm disease eradication?. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 101 (2007) 741-742
2. Arita I., Nakane M., and Fenner F. Public health. Is polio eradication realistic?. Science 312 (2006) 852-854
3. Aylward R.B. Eradicating polio: today's challenges and tomorrow's legacy. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 100 (2006) 401-413
4. Barry M. The tail end of Guinea worm-global eradication without a drug or a vaccine. N. Engl. J. Med. 356 (2007) 2561-2564
5. Beyrer C., Villar J.C., Suwanvanichkij V., Singh S., Baral S.D., and Mills E.J. Neglected diseases, civil conflicts, and the right to health. Lancet 370 (2007) 619-627
6. Blackburn B.G., Eigege A., Gotau H., Gerlong G., Miri E., Hawley W.A., Mathieu E., and Richards F. Successful integration of insecticide-treated bed net distribution with mass drug administration in central Nigeria. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 75 (2006) 650-655
7. Brady M.A., Hooper P.J., and Ottesen E.A. Projected benefits from integrating NTD programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Trends Parasitol. 22 (2006) 285-291
8. Burnham G., Lafta R., Doocy S., and Roberts L. Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey. Lancet 368 (2006) 1421-1428
9. Buse K., and Harmer A.M. Seven habits of highly effective global public-private health partnerships: practice and potential. Soc. Sci. Med. 64 (2007) 259-271
10. Canning D. Priority setting and the 'neglected' tropical diseases. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 100 (2006) 499-504
11. Cassels A. A guide to sector-wide approaches for health development: concepts, issues and working arrangements (1997), World Health Organization, Geneva WHO/ARA/97.12
12. Collier P. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Done About It (2007), Oxford University Press, New York
13. DFID, 2007. Working together for better health. Department for International Development, UK. http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/health-strategy07.pdf [accessed 31 January 2008].
14. Dodd R., and Cassels A. Health, development and the Millennium Development Goals. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 100 (2006) 379-387
15. Donaldson L., and Banatvala N. Health is global: proposals for a UK Government-wide strategy. Lancet 369 (2007) 857-861
16. Easterly W. The White Man's Burden. Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006), Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York
17. Fenwick A., Molyneux D.H., and Nantulya V. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Lancet 365 (2005) 1029-1030
18. Fine P.E., and Griffiths U.K. Global poliomyelitis eradication: status and implications. Lancet 369 (2007) 1321-1322
19. French N., Kaleebu P., Pisani E., and Whitworth J.A.G. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in developing countries. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 100 (2006) 433-454
20. Gayle H.D. AIDS anniversaries in 2006 mark the time to deliver. Lancet 368 (2006) 425-427
21. Ghedin E., Wang S., Spiro D., Caler E., Zhao Q., Crabtree J., Allen J.E., Delcher A.L., Guilano D.B., Miranda-Saavedra D., et al. Draft genome of the filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi. Science 317 (2007) 1756-1760
22. Goldman A.S., Guisinger V.H., Aikins M., Amarillo M.L.E., Belizario V.Y., Garshong B., Gyapong J., Kabali C., Kamal H.A., Kanjilal S., Kyelem D., Lizardo J., Malecela M., Mubyazi G., Nitiema P.A., Ramzy R.M.R., Streit T.G., Wallace A., Brady M.A., Rheingans R., Ottesen E.A., and Haddix A.C. National mass drug administration cost for lymphatic filariasis elimination. PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis. 1 (2007) e67
23. Homeida M., Braide E., Elhassan E., Amazigo U.V., Liese B., Benton B., Noma M., Etya'ale D., Dadzie K.Y., Kale O.O., and Seketeli A. APOC's strategy of community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) and its potential for providing additional health services to the poorest populations. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 96 Suppl. 1 (2002) S93-S104
24. Hotez P.J., Molyneux D.H., Fenwick A., Ottesen E., Ehrlich Sachs S., and Sachs J.D. Incorporating a rapid-impact package for neglected tropical diseases with programs for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. PloS Med. 3 (2006) e102
25. Hotez P.J., Molyneux D.H., Fenwick A., Kumaresan J., Sachs S.E., Sachs J.D., and Savioli L. Control of neglected tropical diseases. N. Engl. J. Med. 357 (2007) 1018-1027
26. Hunt P. The human right to the highest attainable standard of health: new opportunities and challenges. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 100 (2006) 603-607
27. Hutton G., and Tanner M. The sector-wide approach: a blessing for public health?. Bull. World Health Organ. 82 (2004) 893
28. Kabatereine N.B., Tukahebwa E.M., Kazibwe F., Twa-Twa J.M., Barenzi J.F., Zaramba S., Stothard J.R., Fenwick A., and Brooker S. Soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Uganda: epidemiology and cost of control. Trop. Med. Int. Health 10 (2005) 1187-1189
29. Lammie P.J., Fenwick A., and Utzinger J. A blueprint for success: integration of neglected tropical disease control programmes. Trends Parasitol. 22 (2006) 313-321
30. Lancet Editorial. Thinking beyond deworming. Lancet 364 (2004) 1993-1994
31. Lancet Editorial. Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis in Nigeria. Lancet 370 (2007) 1394
32. Laxminarayan R., Mills A.J., Breman J.G., Measham A.R., Alleyne G., Claeson M., Jha P., Musgrove P., Chow J., Shahid-Salles S., and Jamison D.T. Advancement of global health: key messages from the Disease Control Priorities Project. Lancet 367 (2006) 1193-1208
33. Mackay C. Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds, quoted. In: Wheen F. (Ed). How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, 2004 (1841), Fourth Estate, London
34. McCoy D. The World Bank's new health strategy: reason for alarm?. Lancet 369 (2007) 1499-1501
35. Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Senegal, South Africa, and Thailand. Oslo Ministerial Declaration-global health: a pressing foreign policy issue of our time. Lancet 369 (2007) 1373-1378
36. Molyneux D.H. "Neglected" diseases but unrecognised successes-challenges and opportunities for infectious disease control. Lancet 364 (2004) 380-383
37. Molyneux D.H., and Nantulya V. Public-private partnerships in blindness prevention: reaching beyond the eye. Eye 19 (2005) 1050-1056
38. Molyneux D.H., Hopkins D.R., and Zagaria N. Disease eradication, elimination and control: the need for accurate and consistent usage. Trends Parasitol. 20 (2004) 347-351
39. Molyneux D.H., Hotez P.J., and Fenwick A. "Rapid-impact interventions": how a policy of integrated control for Africa's neglected tropical diseases could benefit the poor. PloS Med. 2 (2005) e336
40. Montresor A., Cong D.T., Le Anh T., Ehrhardt A., Mondadori E., Thi T.D., Le Khanh T., Albonico M., and Palmer K.L. Cost containment in a school deworming programme targeting over 2.7 million children in Vietnam. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 101 (2007) 461-464
41. Reddy M., Gill S.S., Kalkar S.R., Anderson P.J., and Rochon P.A. Oral drug therapy for multiple neglected tropical diseases: a systematic review. JAMA 298 (2007) 1911-1924
42. Ruger J.P. Global health governance and the World Bank. Lancet 370 (2007) 1471-1474
43. Ruiz-Tiben E., and Hopkins D.R. Dracunculaisis (Guinea worm disease) eradication. Adv. Parasitol. 61 (2006) 275-309
44. Sachs J.D. The End of Poverty. Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2005), Penguin Press, New York
45. Sachs J.D., and McArthur J.W. The Millennium Project: a plan for meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Lancet 365 (2005) 347-353
46. Shiffman J. HIV/AIDS and the rest of the global health agenda. Bull. World Health Organ. 84 (2006) 923
47. Shiffman J. Has donor prioritization of HIV/AIDS displaced aid for other health issues?. Health Policy Plan. 23 (2008) 95-100
48. Sinuon M., Tsuyuoka R., Socheat D., Montresor A., and Palmer K. Financial costs of deworming children in all primary schools in Cambodia. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 99 (2005) 664-668
49. Stephenson L.S., Latham M.C., Adams E.J., Kinoti S.N., and Pertet A. Physical fitness, growth, and appetite of Kenyan school boys with hookworm, Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides infections are improved four months after a single dose of albendazole. J. Nutr. 123 (1993) 1036-1046
50. Stoltzfus R.J., Albonico M., Chwaya H.M., Savioli L., Tielsch J., Schulze K., and Yip R. Hemoquant determination of hookworm-related blood loss and its role in iron deficiency in African children. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 55 (1996) 399-404
51. Teklehaimanot A., Sachs J.D., and Curtis C. Malaria control needs mass distribution of insecticidal bednets. Lancet 369 (2007) 2143-2146
52. The Partnership for Child Development. The cost of large-scale school health programmes which deliver anthelmintics to children in Ghana and Tanzania. Acta Trop. 73 (1999) 183-204
53. UN, 2007. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2007. United Nations, New York. http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals [accessed 31 January 2008].
54. UNICEF. The State of the World's Children 2008. Child Survival (2008), UNICEF, New York
55. Wakabi W. Global health agencies agree to HIV/AIDS partnership. Lancet 370 (2007) 15-16
56. Widdus R. Public-private partnerships: an overview. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 99 Suppl. 1 (2005) S1-S8
57. WHO. Preventive Chemotherapy in Human Helminthiasis (2006), World Health Organization, Geneva
58. WHO. Dracunculiasis eradication: ministerial meeting, Geneva, 16 May 2007. Wkly Epidemiol. Rec. 82 (2007) 236-237
59. World Bank. Better Health in Africa (1994), The World Bank, Washington DC