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ArticleTransactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2023

Research priorities to support the development of integrated national strategies to control skin-neglected tropical diseases.

Hope Simpson, Asrat Mengiste, Jean Bosco Mbonigaba, Karsor Kollie, Motto Nganda, Laura Dean, Daniel Argaw, Gail Davey, Maya Semrau

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Article in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Hope SimpsonCentre for Global Health Research, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton BN1 9PX, UK.
Asrat MengisteCollege of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, 2Q92+P2W, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Jean Bosco MbonigabaRwanda Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Ministry of Health 23VV+3MM, Kigali, Rwanda.
Karsor KollieNon Communicable and Neglected Tropical Disease Program in the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, 8643+F7C, Monrovia, Liberia.
Motto NgandaCapacity Research Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
Laura DeanCapacity Research Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
Daniel ArgawDepartment of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
Gail DaveyCentre for Global Health Research, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton BN1 9PX, UK.
Maya SemrauCentre for Global Health Research, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton BN1 9PX, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSkin-presenting neglected tropical diseases (skin-NTDs) impose large burdens on affected people, families and communities. The NTD Roadmap 2021-2030 presents a strategic plan to guide collaborative, multisectoral action to overcome these burdens, defining targets to control, eliminate and/or eradicate skin-NTDs by 2030. One of its targets is for 40 countries to adopt integrated skin-NTD strategies. Despite this high-level support for integration, only four countries were implementing integrated skin-NTD strategies in 2020.

methodsWe hosted workshops at the 2021 annual meeting of the Coalition for Operational Research on NTDs, to discuss the operationalisation of Roadmap goals into national strategies and interventions for skin-NTD control. Speakers included NTD Programme Managers from NTD-endemic countries, technical experts and researchers of different aspects of skin-NTDs.

resultsChallenges include community perceptions of interventions, demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of integrated care, availability and accessibility of community-based and primary healthcare services, the quality of data on skin-NTD morbidity and changes to operational structures required for integration. Research priorities included the identification of optimal case detection platforms, evaluation of integrated care, understanding the impacts of integration on community members and community health staff and development of point-of-care diagnostics.

conclusionsThe operational research priorities are intended to support the scale-up of integrated skin-NTDs programmes.

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Public HealthTropical MedicineHumansNeglected DiseasesResearchintegrated interventions, mappingmass drug administrationmorbidity management and disability preventionskin-neglected tropical diseasessocial science

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PMCPMC9890312

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