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Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases and their Impact on Global Health and Development (ASM Books)
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About Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected
Product Description Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases Second Edition The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the most common infections of the world's poor, but few people know about these diseases and why they are so important. This second edition of Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases provides an overview of the NTDs and how they devastate the poor, essentially trapping them in a vicious cycle of extreme poverty by preventing them from working or attaining their full intellectual and cognitive development. Author Peter J. Hotez highlights a new opportunity to control and perhaps eliminate these ancient scourges, through alliances between nongovernmental development organizations and private-public partnerships to create a successful environment for mass drug administration and product development activities. Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases also Addresses the myriad changes that have occurred in the field since the previous edition. Describes how NTDs have affected impoverished populations for centuries, changing world history. Considers the future impact of alliances between nongovernmental development organizations and private-public partnerships. Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases is an essential resource for anyone seeking a roadmap to coordinate global advocacy and mobilization of resources to combat NTDs. Review REVIEW 1 As Dr. Peter Hotez notes in the second edition of Forgotten People Forgotten Diseases, thanks to the Millennium Development Goals we are witnessing a new sense of urgency about the suffering of the world's poorest people. The MDG 6, to “combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases”, has been a target for funds from celebrities, philanthropic organizations and G8 nations. But while HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis have received unprecedented levels of interest, there remains a group of diseases that still sit on the sideline. This is a group of exotic-sounding tropical infections that Hotez, a paediatrician and global health advocate, sees as representing “a health and socioeconomic problem of extraordinary dimensions”. These are the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), so named because they are just that — neglected. Testament to his distinction as Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Hotez unleashes his wealth of knowledge in this book on the 17 NTDs identified by the WHO — a list that spans ascariasis to Wuchereria bancrofti. As somebody who has tried to find information on these diseases in the past, I know that it is a challenge to obtain up-to-date, complete information about the NTDs and their respective eradication efforts. But Forgotten People Forgotten Diseases provides exactly that “one-stop” resource. This book is comprehensive yet extremely readable, and is meticulously well referenced. It includes numerous colour pictures, maps and simplified diagrams of complex pathogen life cycles. The brilliant summary tables throughout the book present the information in a format that's easy to read. And even if you just want a basic overview of a condition, Hotez concludes each chapter with summary points that highlight the key bits of information. The book is well structured, with related diseases placed together in the same chapter. Covering soil-transmitted helminth infections, schistosomiasis, filarial infections, blinding diseases, mycobacterial infections, kinetoplastid infections, leptospirosis, dengue, rabies and the neglected tropical diseases of North America. Hotez's broad-ranging book spans numerous diseases across multiple continents. The final chapters are on the future trends for controlling NTDs. Here, Hotez details how pharmaceutical companies and advocacy organizations might work to develop new drugs for NTDs, and he gives a great summary of the positive role of product development partnerships (PDPs).These chapters act as a powerful weapon in the battle against the NTDs. Hotez begins each chapter
