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Challenges and opportunities in the fight against neglected tropical diseases: a decade from the London Declaration on NTDs

Royal Society Publishing

08 September 2023

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Royal Society Publishing front cover Challenges and opportunities in the fight against neglected tropical diseases: a decade from the London Declaration on NTDs

Front cover image is a 3D illustration of the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite. This protozoan causes Chagas’ disease in humans when transmitted by the bite of a member of the Triatominae insect family.

Royal Society Publishing has published a special issue of interest from Philosophical Transactions B: Challenges and opportunities in the fight against neglected tropical diseases: a decade from the London Declaration on NTDs compiled and edited by Kathryn Forbes, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, T Déirdre Hollingsworth and Roy M Anderson.

The articles can be accessed directly below:
Challenges and opportunities in the fight against neglected tropical diseases: a decade from the London Declaration on NTDs

They include:

  • Introduction Challenges and opportunities in the fight against neglected tropical diseases: a decade from the London Declaration on NTDs
    Kathryn Forbes, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, T Déirdre Hollingsworth and Roy M Anderson
  • A positive consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: how the counterfactual experience of school closures is accelerating a multisectoral response to the treatment of neglected tropical diseases
    Donald AP Bundy et al.
  • Can mass drug administration of moxidectin accelerate onchocerciasis elimination in Africa?
    Klodeta Kura et al.
  • Modernizing the design and analysis of prevalence surveys for neglected tropical diseases
    Peter J Diggle et al.
  • Reproducibility matters: intra- and intersample variation of the point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen test in two Schistosoma mansoni endemic areas in Uganda
    Elías Kabbas-Piñango et al.
  • Evaluation of Kato-Katz and multiplex quantitative polymerase chain reaction performance for clinical helminth infections in Thailand using a latent class analysis
    Chawarat Rotejanaprasert et al.
  • A modelling analysis of a new multistage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy
    Emma L Davis et al.
  • Knowledge, attitudes, practices and acceptability of a school preventive chemotherapy programme for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths control in Angola
    Adam W Bartlett et al.
  • Lymphatic filariases and soil-transmitted helminthiases in Sri Lanka: the challenge of eliminating residual pockets of transmission
    Nilmini TGA Chandrasena, IE Gunaratna, Dileepa Ediriweera and NR de Silva
  • How important is the spatial movement of people in attempts to eliminate the transmission of human helminth infections by mass drug administration?
    Benjamin S Collyer, James E Truscott, Charles S Mwandawiro, Sammy M Njenga and Roy M Anderson
  • Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology
    Anna Borlase, Joaquin M Prada and Thomas Crellen
  • From serological surveys to disease burden: a modelling pipeline for Chagas disease
    Julia Ledien et al.
  • Reaching the World Health Organization elimination targets for schistosomiasis: the importance of a One Health perspective
    Adriana V Díaz, Martin Walker and Joanne P Webster
  • Global prioritization of endemic zoonotic diseases for conducting surveillance in domestic animals to protect public health
    Yu Qiu et al.