Neglected tropical disease control in a world with COVID-19: an opportunity and a necessity for innovation.

Neglected tropical disease control in a world with COVID-19: an opportunity and a necessity for innovation.

Simon J Brooker, Kundai Ziumbe, Nebiyu Negussu, Siobhan Crowley, Mona Hammami

Countries have seen substantial disruptions to usual health services related to coronavirus disease 2019 and these are likely to have immediate and long-term indirect effects on many disease control programmes, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The pandemic has highlighted the usefulness of mathematical modelling to understand the impacts of these disruptions and future control measures on progress towards 2030 NTD goals. The pandemic also provides an opportunity, and a practical necessity, to transform NTD programmes through innovation.

2021

covid-19, innovation, neglected tropical diseases

10.1093/trstmh/traa157

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene