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Editorial
. 2017 Apr 20;11(4):e0005355.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005355. eCollection 2017 Apr.

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: Ten years of progress in neglected tropical disease control and elimination … More or less

Peter Hotez  1   2   3   4 , Serap Aksoy  5
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Editorial

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: Ten years of progress in neglected tropical disease control and elimination … More or less

Peter Hotez et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .

Abstract

This year PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLOS NTDs) celebrates its tenth anniversary following the publication of the first issue in 2007 [1]. When PLOS NTDs was founded, the framework of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) as an alternative to "other diseases" (as they were then referred to in the Millennium Development Goals) was just getting started-especially for Africa [2, 3]. In the decade since, PLOS NTDs has overseen enormous successes in NTD control and elimination. Here, we want to briefly review the ten year progress made towards the control or elimination of the diseases now identified by the WHO as NTDs. Many of the details are highlighted in PLOS NTDs papers cited here, but the summary information is based on the recently released Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2015 (also launched with Gates Foundation support) that summarized past-decade changes in disease prevalence, mortality, or disability rates (from the years 2005 to 2015) [4-6], as well as the GBD Study 2013 that summarizes disease prevalence changes over a longer time horizon from 1990 to 2013 [7].

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Conflict of interest statement

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PH is lead investigator on several vaccines against NTDs that are in development, as well as on vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis that are in clinical trials.

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