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Advocacy for sleeping sickness
FIND and the African Union Commission (AUC) have agreed to implement, through the Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC) office of the AUC, several advocacy activities. These projects will (a) encourage governments of endemic countries to prioritize HAT surveillance and control by ensuring adequate budgetary allocation, (b) create the environment necessary for sustainable introduction of new diagnostic tests in the public sectors of endemic countries, and (c) increase community awareness of the disease. Read more Important links
Background: Early warning systems (EWS) are management tools to predict the occurrence of epidemics of infectious diseases. While climate-based EWS have been developed for malaria, no standard protocol to evaluate and compare EWS has been proposed. Additionally, there are several neglected tropical diseases whose transmission is sensitive to environmental conditions, for which no EWS have been proposed, though they represent a large burden for the affected populations. Background: Although the pharmaceutical industry’s ‘‘neglect’’ of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has been investigated, no study evaluating media coverage of NTDs has been published. Poor media coverage exacerbates the neglect. This study aimed to investigate, describe, and analyse international media coverage of ‘‘neglected diseases’’ in general and three specific NTDs—African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease—from 1 January 2003 to 1 June 2007. © Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics 2008. Click here to see the copyright notice |
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