Surveillance-response systems : the key to elimination of tropical diseases

dc.contributor.authorTambo, Ernest
dc.contributor.authorAi, Lin
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Xia
dc.contributor.authorChen, Jun-Hu
dc.contributor.authorHughes, Wei
dc.contributor.authorBergquist, Robert
dc.contributor.authorGuo, Jia-Gang
dc.contributor.authorUtzinger, Jurg
dc.contributor.authorTanner, Marcel
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Xiao-Nong
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-27T06:06:44Z
dc.date.available2015-07-27T06:06:44Z
dc.date.issued2014-05-27
dc.description.abstractTropical diseases remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Although combined health efforts brought about significant improvements over the past 20 years, communities in resource-constrained settings lack the means of strengthening their environment in directions that would provide less favourable conditions for pathogens. Still, the impact of infectious diseases is declining worldwide along with progress made regarding responses to basic health problems and improving health services delivery to the most vulnerable populations. The London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), initiated by the World Health Organization’s NTD roadmap, set out the path towards control and eventual elimination of several tropical diseases by 2020, providing an impetus for local and regional disease elimination programmes. Tropical diseases are often patchy and erratic, and there are differing priorities in resources-limited and endemic countries at various levels of their public health systems. In order to identify and prioritize strategic research on elimination of tropical diseases, the ‘First Forum on Surveillance-Response System Leading to Tropical Diseases Elimination’ was convened in Shanghai in June 2012. Current strategies and the NTD roadmap were reviewed, followed by discussions on how to identify and critically examine prevailing challenges and opportunities, including inter-sectoral collaboration and approaches for elimination of several infectious, tropical diseases. A priority research agenda within a ‘One Health-One World’ frame of global health was developed, including (i) the establishment of a platform for resource-sharing and effective surveillance-response systems for Asia Pacific and Africa with an initial focus on elimination of lymphatic filariasis, malaria and schistosomiasis; (ii) development of new strategies, tools and approaches, such as improved diagnostics and antimalarial therapies; (iii) rigorous validation of surveillance-response systems; and (iv) designing pilot studies to transfer Chinese experiences of successful surveillance-response systems to endemic countries with limited resources.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2015en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThe National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the World Health Organization. The research was partially supported by the National S & T Major Program (grant no. 2012ZX10004220), by the National S & T Supporting Project (grant no. 2007BAC03A02) and by supported by China UK Global Health Support Programme (grant no. GHSP-CS-OP1). Xiao-Nong Zhou was funded through a capacity building initiative for Ecohealth Research on Emerging Infectious Disease in Southeast Asia supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) in partnership with the Global Health Research Initiative (grant no. 105509-00001002-023).en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.idpjournal.com/content/3/1/17en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationTambo, E, Ai, L, Zhou, X, Chen, JH, Hughes, W, Bergquist, R, Guo, JG, Utzinger, J, Tanner, M & Zhou, XN 2015, 'Surveillance-response systems : the key to elimination of tropical diseases', Infectious Diseases of Poverty, vol. 3, art. no. 17, pp. 1-10.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2049-9957
dc.identifier.other10.1186/2049-9957-3-17
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/49149
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_ZA
dc.rights© 2014 Tambo et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectTropical diseasesen_ZA
dc.subjectControlen_ZA
dc.subjectEliminationen_ZA
dc.subjectSurveillance-response systemen_ZA
dc.subjectGlobal healthen_ZA
dc.subjectChinaen_ZA
dc.titleSurveillance-response systems : the key to elimination of tropical diseasesen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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