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Post-Soviet Economic Breakdown May Have Contributed To Re-Emergence Of NTDs In Central Asia
A Public Library of Science press release highlight's Central Asia's "hidden burden" of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), writing that, according to an article written by Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, and Ken Alibek of Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan and published in the PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases journal on Tuesday, "the region continues to suffer from a post-Soviet economic breakdown that may have contributed to a re-emergence of several NTDs in the area, especially among its most economically disadvantaged groups." According to the press release, "[t]he five mostly landlocked Central Asian countries created after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -- became increasingly vulnerable to NTDs due to a deterioration of health care services and infrastructure" (9/27).
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