
According to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health, an effective and integrated program to control neglected tropical diseases strengthens local health systems, fosters community involvement in health, helps to ensure monitoring and accountability, and serves to destigmatize these conditions by dispelling myths and misconceptions about them through evidence-based information and education. The global community is now well positioned to control or eliminate neglected tropical diseases in developing countries and to link these efforts to programs to combat HIV–AIDS and malaria.
O combate às chamadas doenças negligenciadas está a dar passos seguros, mas ainda há um longo caminho a percorrer. No ICVS, em Braga, o domínio de investigação em Doenças Infecciosas continua a trilhar um pedaço desse caminho, desenvolvendo vários trabalhos em torno da Úlcera do Buruli.
[Picture Copyright: Peter J. Hotez et al, The New England Journal of Medicine.]
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