Long-term trends of visceral leishmaniasis incidence and mortality in India 1990-2019: an application of joinpoint and age-period-cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT: Leishmaniasis, a vector-borne disease, remains one of the most significant parasitic disease with potential outbreak and high mortality. Despite improvements in living standards and health infrastructure, there has been a territorial expansion in the incidence and lethality of the disease. However, evidence regarding its control, prevention, and eradication remains limited. Given an understanding of the present status of the disease, this study assesses the trends and patterns in the incidence and mortality of this endemic in India from 1990 to 2019. This study obtained Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) incidence and mortality data (1990-2019) from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2019, provided by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). To capture the overall changes and

SUBMITTER: Dhamnetiya D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12482584 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature