SynthesisBMJ global health2021
How can we better integrate the prevention, treatment, control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases with other health interventions? A systematic review.
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- A community-based participatory research and community health workers-led health education strategy for schistosomiasis control among schoolchildren in Pemba Island, Zanzibar: a cluster-randomized trial.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2026Trial
- Development of a multiplex quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) assay for simultaneous detection of Schistosoma haematobium and high-risk human papillomaviruses.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Enhancing risk communication for climate-sensitive neglected tropical diseases in Northern Tanzania: Integrating agropastoral community knowledge and health system strategies.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Feasibility of mainstreaming schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminthiasis mass drug administration into primary healthcare: a baseline survey for a community case study in Western Kenya.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Challenges to 'Last Mile' Surveillance: Result of Programmatic Review of Integrated Skin NTDs Surveillance in Three Indonesian Districts.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Article
- A multicenter hospital-based analysis of cystic Echinococcosis in Afghanistan: Filling a National data gap.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Observational
- Intervention framework towards a community-driven approach to improve health-seeking in cutaneous leishmaniasis in rural Sri Lanka.Tropical medicine and health · 2026Article
- Integrated strategies for controlling and eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of approaches, challenges, and opportunities.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2026Review
- Paradoxes of Elimination and Persistence: Neglected Tropical Diseases in Ecuador Compared to Latin America and the Caribbean.Journal of tropical medicine · 2026Review
- Onchocerciasis and non-communicable diseases in the Bafut Health District, Cameroon: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards community-directed treatment with ivermectin.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Challenges and opportunities in controlling and eradicating neglected tropical diseases: Public and private health operators in Somalia 2025.Tropical medicine and health · 2025Article
- Inclusion in Neglected Tropical Disease Programmes: A Review of Inclusive Approaches for Control and Elimination.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Identifying gaps in the care and management of NTD morbidity, disability and disfigurement in Africa.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Nationwide variation of snakebite incidence in Kenya: Community surveys as an integrated NTD approach.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Current state and future directions of interventions for neglected tropical diseases.Nature human behaviour · 2025Review
- Effects of an integrated intervention on schistosomiasis prevalence in a rural area of Tanzania.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
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- Evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of a primary healthcare strategy to reduce the prevalence of strongyloidiasis in endemically infected Indigenous communities in Northern Australia.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Global trends and burdens of neglected tropical diseases and malaria from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Challenges and Strategies for Mainstreaming Neglected Tropical Diseases Campaign Interventions in Ethiopia.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundGlobally, about 1.7 billion people living in poverty are affected by one or more of a group of disabling, disfiguring and poverty-promoting conditions known as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Major global health actors, like the WHO, have endorsed a shift from vertical to integrated NTD management.
objectiveThis systematic review aimed to evaluate how integration is being conducted and how we can improve it.
methodsPubMed, Medline, Cochrane library, Web of Science, Trip, Embase, Global Health and Google Scholar were searched from 1 April to 22 July 2020.We included peer-reviewed articles published between 1 January 2000 and 22 July 2020 in English.
resultsDatabase searches produced 24 565 studies, of which 35 articles met the inclusion criteria. Twenty of these articles were conducted in sub-Saharan Africa. Twenty articles were also published between 2015 and 2020. Literature revealed that NTDs have been integrated-among themselves; with water, sanitation and hygiene programmes; with vector control; with primary healthcare; with immunisation programmes; and with malaria management. Integrated mass drug administration for multiple NTDs was the most common method of integration. The three complex, yet common characteristics of successful integration were good governance, adequate financing and total community engagement.
conclusionThe dataset identified integrated management of NTDs to be cost effective and potentially to increase treatment coverage. However, the identified modes of integration are not exclusive and are limited by the available literature. Nonetheless, integration should urgently be implemented, while considering the programmatic and sociopolitical context. PROSPERO REGISTRATION NUMBER: The study protocol was registered with PROSPERO number, CRD42020167358.
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