Control of visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa: fragile progress, new threats

Elin Hoffmann Dahl; Hamdan Mustafa Hamdan; Lexson Mabrouk; Sultani Hadley Matendechero; Tesfahun Bishaw Mengistie; Mousab Siddig Elhag; Mounir Lado; Cherinet Adera; Atia Abdalla Atia; Julien Potet; Margriet den Boer; Koert Ritmeijer; Jorge Alvar; Fabiana Alves; Gabriel Alcoba

doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006835

Control of visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa: fragile progress, new threats

BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Aug;6(8):e006835. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006835.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Diseases Medical Advisor, MSF Access Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland elin-hoffmann.dahl@oslo.msf.org.
² Disease Control Directorate Manager, Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan.
³ Director Communicable Diseases, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan.
⁴ Head, Division of Vector Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵ Neglected Tropical Diseases Team Officer, Diseases Prevention and Control Directorate, Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁶ Neglected Tropical Diseases Advisor, Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan.
⁷ Country Director, IMA World Health, Juba, South Sudan.
⁸ Visceral Leishmaniasis Technical Advisor, ASCEND (Accelerating Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases) / Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁹ Country Lead, ASCEND (Accelerating Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases), Khartoum, Sudan.
¹⁰ Neglected Diseases Policy Advisor, MSF Access Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹¹ Neglected Tropical Diseases advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières, London, UK.
¹² Coordinator Neglected Tropical Diseases, Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹³ Senior Leishmaniasis Adviser, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁴ Head of Visceral Leishmaniasis Disease, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁵ Leader of Neglected Tropical Diseases Working Group, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Keywords: health policy; leishmaniasis; other diagnostic or tool.

MeSH terms

Africa, Eastern / epidemiology
Humans
Leishmaniasis, Visceral* / drug therapy
Leishmaniasis, Visceral* / epidemiology
Leishmaniasis, Visceral* / prevention & control