The new COVID-19 poor and the neglected tropical diseases resurgence

Peter J. Hotez; Alan Fenwick; David Molyneux

doi:10.1186/s40249-020-00784-2

The new COVID-19 poor and the neglected tropical diseases resurgence

Peter J. Hotez, Alan Fenwick, David Molyneux

Tropical Disease Biology

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Abstract

More than 100 million people are facing a return to extreme poverty because of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), while new estimates suggest that threenations—India, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—may suffer the greatest economic contractions. Such findings will have profound consequences in terms of our ability to control or eliminate the most widely prevalent neglected tropical diseases.

Original language	English
Article number	10
Journal	Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00784-2
Publication status	Published - 29 Jan 2021

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