Insights on Neglected Tropical Diseases in West Africa
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 6916
Special Issue Editors
Interests: epidemiology; public health
Interests: lymphatic filariasis; helminths; tuberculosis; infectious disease diagnostics; parasitic diseases; infectious disease outbreak response; leprosy
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Dear Colleagues
With support from the WHO’s Special Program for Tropical Diseases Research (TDR), two universities (the African Public Health Institute from Burkina Faso and University Gamal Abdel Nasser of Conakry, Guinea) have led the implementation of two operational research initiatives on Neglected Tropical Diseases in West Africa. These courses were run in 2022/2023 using the WHO SORT-IT (Structured Operational Research Training Initiative) approach. During these courses, 14 participants from Guinea, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, and Niger were mentored to design a study, develop their research protocol, collect and analyze their data, and write scientific manuscripts.
This Special Issue aims to collect this project’s manuscripts. All papers will be peer-reviewed by scholars in the field and judged by academic editors.
Prof. Dr. Alioune Camara
Prof. Dr. Andrew Ramsay
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- human African trypanosomiasis
- onchocerciasis
- leprosy
- snakebite
- schistosomiasis
- lymphatic filariasis
- dengue
- neglected tropical skin diseases
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