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Comprehensive Approach To NTDs 'Fosters Social Equity'
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) "are diseases of socially excluded populations that promote poverty by relatively depriving individuals from basic capabilities and freedoms," Carlos Franco-Paredes of the Children's Hospital of Mexico and Jose Santos-Preciado of the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico write in this PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases editorial. The authors examine "[t]he social pathways of becoming ill with an NTD" which "include socially determined failures including widespread illiteracy, malnutrition, poor living conditions, unemployment and the overall failure of ownership relations in the form of entitlements."
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