Tropical Diseases and Cure

NTD’s & Infectious Diseases Eradication: Novel Technologies and Treatments

Currently, various disease-specific technologies such as drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and vector control agents are available to facilitate the control or elimination of many of the world’s NTDs & Infectious Diseases . For most of these diseases drug, vaccine, diagnostic and vector control technologies are imperfect and have limited use because of their toxicities, inadequate efficacies, or because they do not prevent reinfection. Novel and innovative tools for genetic manipulation and modifications of biological mechanisms with control conditions will lead to development of various vaccines which would prevent pathogen transmission.

Despite the advancements and progress which has been made in the field of NTD’s & Infectious Diseases diagnostics over the past few years by some of the research organizations and other stakeholders, there remains a wide gap between the diseases and control. Of the 17 NTD’s & the for the wide number of Infectious Diseases on the WHO list almost 12 have a significant need for new and innovative diagnostic tests by various advance tools. It is therefore, very  important to understand how and where we use the existing tools to make sure that they are giving output in a quality assured manner. The strategy development process also revealed the following sections in the field of NTD’s & Infectious Diseases.