Safely resuming neglected tropical disease control activities during COVID-19: Perspectives from Nigeria and Guinea

Published on January 6, 2022

Through semistructured interviews with individuals involved with NTD control at the local and national levels, study identified key themes and common perspectives between the 2 countries, as well as observations that were specific to each. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Roadblocks in Chagas disease care in endemic and nonendemic countries: Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and the United States. The NET-Heart project

January 6, 2022
The authors identified barriers in access to early diagnosis and treatment of both acute and chronic infection and their complications. They additionally performed an additional analysis of them based on the Inter American Society of Cardiology (SIAC) and the World Heart Federation (WHF) Chagas Roadmap, at a country level in Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and the United States, which serve as represe

The challenges of defining global health research

January 6, 2022
Achieving equity in health for all should be the driving force of global health research and education, wherever in the world that may be, nationally or transnationally.The word ‘global’ itself in ‘global health research’ may be redundant already, given the risk of equating global health problems to transnational health problems. Perhaps 'global health research' should simply be called 'health equ