Table of Contents
Cover page
Preface
Abbreviations
Neglected infectious diseases: diseases of poverty
Principal causes: poverty and other social determinants of health
Strategies for control and eventual elimination in the Americas
Landmark actions that have helped reduce the suffering caused by these diseases
Successes
Challenges
NIDs that could be eliminated
Chagas disease: the American endemic disease
Schistosomiasis: the disease transmitted by freshwater snails
Lymphatic filariasis: the “elephant leg” stigma
Leprosy: an ancient disease
Malaria: on the verge of elimination
Onchocerciasis: “river blindness”
Trachoma: the disease that blinds the poorest
NIDs that could be controlled or drastically reduced
Soil-transmitted helminth infections: intestinal worms
Diseases whose burden could be reduced of affected people
Fascioliasis: the disease of the liver
Leishmaniasis
Dengue: “breakbone fever”
Way forward: post-2015 efforts to combat NIDs
Collaboration to combat NIDs
Public-private partnerships to control and eliminate of NIDs in the Americas
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