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KEY INTERVENTIONS: SITUATION REPORT − CHAPTER 3
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KEY INTERVENTIONS:
SITUATION REPORT
WHO recommends five public-health interventions to accelerate the prevention, control,
elimination and eradication of NTDs.
Introduction
WHO recommends five public-health interventions to accelerate the prevention,
control, elimination and eradication of NTDs: innovative and intensified disease
management; 1 preventive chemotherapy; 2 vector ecology and management; 3 veterinary
public-health services; 4 and the provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene. 5 Although
one approach may predominate for the control of a specific NTD or group of NTDs, more
effective control results when these approaches are combined and delivered locally. Research
underpins all five interventions. 6 Avenues for research and development must be pursued
in order to find new approaches and simplified strategies as well as novel diagnostics,
medicines, vaccines and vector control methods to enhance interventions and advance
progress towards the Roadmap’s targets.
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1
http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/disease_management/en/
2
http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/preventive_chemotherapy/en/
3
http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/vector_ecology/en/
4
http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/zoonoses/en/
5
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/en/
6
http://www.who.int/tdr/en/