Burden of neglected tropical diseases and access to medicine and diagnostics in Ethiopia: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More than 1.7 billion people are affected by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) worldwide. Forty percent of the NTD-affected people live in Africa with the poorest, most vulnerable, and hard to reach geographical areas. The NTDs cause significant social and economic burden and deepen marginalization and stigmatization. The World Health Organization's current roadmap for NTD aims to prevent, control, eliminate, or eradicate 20 tropical diseases. Ethiopia experiences a high burden of these diseases, but current access to diagnostics, medicine, and/or care has been little explored to inform the country's NTD strategic plan. The overall purpose of the scoping review was to map and characterize the burden of NTDs and challenges in access to diagnostics, medicine, and/or care

SUBMITTER: Semahegn A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10424375 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature