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In a second analysis using an expanded list of NTDs based on the G-FINDER survey, [175] the number was slightly higher, with 46 new drugs and vaccines approved (~3% of the total including HIV drugs). [166] Between 2000 and 2009, there has been some increase with an additional 26 newly approved drugs and vaccines for NTDs. [166]
NTDs were still a major health concern, affecting 1.7 billion people worldwide, 35% of who are in Africa. Tanzania, for example, had the highest cases of NTDs; more than 29 million Tanzanians, almost half the population, required treatment for at least one NTD, and 19 million of the children were at risk of intestinal worms. [14]
Various organizations will include different diseases under the umbrella term of "neglected tropical diseases," but most diseases listed as such occur in tropical climates, lack global public attention, and have high infection rates.
The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases is an advocacy initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute dedicated to raising the awareness, political will, and funding necessary to control and eliminate the most common Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)—a group of disabling, disfiguring, and deadly diseases affecting more than 1.4 billion people worldwide living on less than $1.25 a day.
The most prominent examples of NTDs in India that have been allocated to the PCT group are lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis. [3] The main tool for their control is the periodic administration of efficacious, safe, and inexpensive (usually donated) drugs to entire at-risk populations.
The London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases was a collaborative disease eradication programme launched on 30 January 2012 in London.It was inspired by the World Health Organization roadmap to eradicate or prevent transmission for neglected tropical diseases by the year 2020. [1]
The first World NTD Day was on January 30, 2020. [3] [1]January 30 is the anniversary of the landmark 2012 London Declaration on NTDs, which unified partners across sectors, countries and disease communities to push for greater investment and action on NTDs.
Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) was a computerized information processing system developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s and first deployed in the early 1960s for use in combat ships. It took reports from multiple sensors on different ships and collated it to produce a single unified map of the battlespace.