ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2020
NTD Diagnostics for Disease Elimination: A Review.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Financial hardship among patients suffering from neglected tropical diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis of global literature.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Pooled it
- Towards point-of-care diagnostics of neglected tropical diseases using nucleic acid amplification tests.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2026Review
- Mass of components and material distribution in lateral flow assay kits.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2025Article
- Cell-free DNA as a complementary diagnostic tool for neglected tropical diseases towards achieving the WHO NTDs elimination by 2030.The journal of liquid biopsy · 2025Article
- Equivocal diagnostics: Making a 'good' point-of-care test for elimination in global health.Social studies of science · 2024Article
- The social lives of point-of-care tests in low- and middle-income countries: a meta-ethnography.Health policy and planning · 2024Article
- Progress towards elimination of onchocerciasis in the Region du Sud-Ouest of Burkina Faso which was previously subject to a recrudescence event after vector control.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Burden of neglected tropical diseases and access to medicine and diagnostics in Ethiopia: a scoping review.Systematic reviews · 2023Article
- Prevalence ofDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Translating diagnostics and drug delivery technologies to low-resource settings.Science translational medicine · 2022Review
- Landscape analysis of NTD diagnostics and considerations on the development of a strategy for regulatory pathways.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Sensitivity Analysis of a Transmission Interruption Model for the Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections in Kenya.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Evaluation of LAMP for the diagnosis of Loa loa infection in dried blood spots compared to PCR-based assays and microscopy.Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz · 2022Article
- An Overview of the Management of Mansonellosis.Research and reports in tropical medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) marked out for disease elimination provide a lens through which to explore the changing status of diagnosis in global health. This paper reports on the findings of a scoping review, which set out to explore the main debates around diagnosis for the elimination of NTDs, including the multiple roles diagnostic technologies are being ascribed and the ideal characteristics of tests. It also attempts to summarise the state of diagnosis for three NTDs with elimination goals. The review places special emphasis on point-of-care testing in acknowledgement of the remote and underserved areas where NTDs proliferate. Early NTD campaigns were largely focused on attack phase planning, whereby a similar set of interventions could be transplanted anywhere. Now, with elimination goals in sight, strategies must be tailored to local settings if they are to attain and sustain success. Diagnostic data helps with local adaptation and is increasingly used for programmatic decision-making. The review finds that elimination goals reframe whom diagnosis is for and the myriad roles diagnostics can play. The exigencies of elimination also serve to highlight deficiencies in the current diagnostic arsenal and development pipeline for many NTDs. Moving forward, a guiding framework is needed to drive research and stimulate investment in diagnosis to support NTD goals.
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