Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Impact on Global Health and Development - Hardcover

Hotez, Peter J., Ph.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555814409 ISBN 13: 9781555814403

Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology, 2008

Synopsis

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the most common infections of the world’s poor, but few people know about these diseases and why they are so important. This second edition ofForgotten People, Forgotten Diseases provides an overview of the NTDs and how they devastate the poor, essentially trapping them in a vicious cycle of extreme poverty by preventing them from working or attaining their full intellectual and cognitive development.

Author Peter J. Hotez highlights a new opportunity to control and perhaps eliminate these ancient scourges, through alliances between nongovernmental development organizations and private-public partnerships to create a successful environment for mass drug administration and product development activities. Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases also

• Addresses the myriad changes that have occurred in the field since the previous edition.
• Describes how NTDs have affected impoverished populations for centuries, changing world history.
• Considers the future impact of alliances between nongovernmental development organizations and private-public partnerships.

Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases is an essential resource for anyone seeking a roadmap to coordinate global advocacy and mobilization of resources to combat NTDs.

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From the Inside Flap:

"Like a great general mustering his forces, Professor Peter Hotez is gathering the forces of the world community to the fight against mankind's most ancient scourges: leprosy, worm infections, blinding trachoma, and other harrowing tropical diseases....His crystal clear and powerful text displays the mind of a great scientist and humanist, one who knows every technical detail about the diseases which afflict billions of people and kill millions each decade....This book is an amazing primer. It can be read by the general reader but also by the specialist in Infectious Diseases.... This book is thrilling on all levels."

From the Foreword by Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, M.D., M.P.H., Millennium Village Project of The Earth Institute, and Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ph.D., Special Advisor to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY

"Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases teaches us about an incredible opportunity we have to control... neglected tropical diseases on a massive scale. I am excited by the possibility of witnessing the elimination of some of these terrible scourges in my lifetime. For all of these reasons, I am hopeful that this book will inspire you and stimulate you to get involved in stamping out the neglected tropical diseases, thereby taking an important step to reaching out in a very tangible way to the world's poorest and most vulnerable people."

From the Foreword by Alyssa Milano, Lead Ambassador for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases

Review:

"Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases teaches us about an incredible opportunity we have to control... neglected tropical diseases on a massive scale. I am excited by the possibility of witnessing the elimination of some of these terrible scourges in my lifetime. For all of these reasons, I am hopeful that this book will inspire you and stimulate you to get involved in stamping out the neglected tropical diseases, thereby taking an important step to reaching out in a very tangible way to the world's poorest and most vulnerable people." -- Alyssa Milano "Like a great general mustering his forces, Professor Peter Hotez is gathering the forces of the world community to the fight against mankind's most ancient scourges: leprosy, worm infections, blinding trachoma, and other harrowing tropical diseases.... His crystal clear and powerful text displays the mind of a great scientist and humanist, one who knows every technical detail about the diseases which afflict billions of people and kill millions each decade.... This book is an amazing primer. It can be read by the general reader but also by the specialist in Infectious Diseases.... This book is thrilling on all levels." -- Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, M.D., M.P.H.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1555814409
• ISBN 13: 9781555814403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 215