Neglected Tropical Diseases and Equity in the Post-2015 Health Agenda

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ID11470918
AutoresElizabeth M Taylor (0000-0003-0261-9141), Emma Michelle Taylor, James Smith (0000-0002-0448-8774, University of Edinburgh)
Ano2018
Volume49
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2018-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIDS Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436
EditoraInstitute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.19088/1968-2018.141
OpenAlexW2803060951
IdiomaEN
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The Millennium Development Goals’ focus on just three infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, malaria, and belatedly, tuberculosis) configured the global health funding landscape for 15 years. neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of 17 or so diseases that disproportionately afflict the world’s ‘bottom billion’, are a symbol of global health inequities, in terms of prioritisation, research attention, and treatment. This article traces efforts to include NTDs in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda and, having achieved that goal, lobby for an influential position in the post-2015 aid agenda. The SDGs herald a shift to a more expansive approach and there is a risk that NTDs will once again be left behind, lost in a panoply of new goals and targets. There is, however, an opportunity for NTDs to lever their ‘neglect’ and be recast as a tool of accountability, acting as both a target for and proxy indicator of health equity for the SDGs

Accountability · Development economics · Disease · Economic growth · Economics · Global health · Health care · Malaria · Millennium Development Goals · Neglected tropical diseases · Political science · Poverty · Public health · Sanitation · Sustainable development · Tropical disease · Global Health and Surgery · Global Maternal and Child Health · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Immunology