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Efforts To Fight HIV/AIDS, NTDs Should Be Integrated
"The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) produce a devastating level of chronic disability in sub-Saharan Africa, with some estimates suggesting that the NTD disease burden exceeds tuberculosis and is one-half that of malaria," Julie Noblick and Richard Skolnick of George Washington University and Peter Hotez of the Sabin Vaccine Institute write in a PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases editorial. With noted relationships between the prevalence of NTDs and HIV, the diseases "demand a public health response from the established global HIV/AIDS community, in parallel with efforts to scale up NTD control," they argue.
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