Dirk Engels

Confronting neglected tropical diseases: a moral and strategic imperative for global equity

Dirk Engels, Xiao-Nong Zhou

This editorial, published on the occasion of the World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day in 2026, highlights the persistent and pressing issue of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and their impact on global health equity. It argues that addressing NTDs is not only a …

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Strengthening capacity-building in malaria and schistosomiasis control under China-Africa cooperation: Assessing a case study of Burkina Faso

Hongmei Li, Diakourga Arthur Djibougou, Shenning Lu, Shan Lv et autres

Malaria and schistosomiasis are highly prevalent in Burkina Faso, whereas China has successfully eliminated malaria as well as schistosomiasis as a public health problem. To implement the China-Africa health cooperation initiative, a series of activities were launched since 2019 to enhance understanding …

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A decade of innovation to deepen the understanding of infectious diseases of poverty and foster their control and elimination

Dirk Engels, Shenglan Tang, Colin D. Butler, Ayoade Oduola et autres

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The potential of conditional cash transfers for the control of neglected tropical diseases

Dirk Engels, Thoko Elphick-Pooley

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of poverty-related diseases that particularly affect vulnerable communities in resource poor settings. Even though NTDs affect over 1·7 billion people globally, they have long been ignored in global and national health agendas and in budget …

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World NTD Day 2022 and a new Kigali Declaration to galvanise commitment to end neglected tropical diseases

Thoko Elphick-Pooley, Dirk Engels

The World Health Organization's first roadmap and the London Declaration on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have allowed an unprecedented expansion of interventions to control and eliminate this group of infectious diseases that primarily affects vulnerable or marginalised communities. The 2021-2030 NTD roadmap …

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Evaluation of China–Zanzibar Cooperation Project of Schistosomiasis: No-Stakeholder

Yuzheng Huang, Dirk Engels

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Time to Integrate Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Control and Elimination

Dirk Engels, Fang Huang, Xiao‐Nong Zhou

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Neurocysticercosis: Reducing the burden of disease is an even more attainable goal

Dirk Engels, Francois-Xavier Meslin Dirk Engels, Lorenzo Savioli

Evaluation of the therapeutic efficacy of praziquantel against schistosomes in seven countries with ongoing large-scale deworming programs

Bruno Levecke, Johnny Vlaminck, Luciano Andriamaro, Shaali Ame et autres

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends periodic assessment of the therapeutic efficacy of praziquantel (PZQ) to detect reduced efficacy that may arise from drug resistance in schistosomes. In this multi-country study (2014), we assessed the therapeutic efficacy of a single oral dose …

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Correction: Female genital schistosomiasis and HIV/AIDS: Reversing the neglect of girls and women

Peter J. Hotez, Wendy Harrison, Amaya L. Bustinduy, Camilla Ducker et autres

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007025.].

Semi-field and field trials to control Biomphalaria alexandrina and Bulinus truncatus, intermediate host snails of schistosomiasis in Egypt by the plant molluscicide Luowei/TDS 4%

Mohamed A. El-Emam, Fathia A. Gawish, Mohamed R. Habib, Wei Wang et autres

Controlling the snail intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis is an efficient and rapid method for reducing or eliminating the transmission of this disease. The present study aimed to assess the molluscicidal activity of Luowei/TDS 4% against Biomphalaria alexandrina and Bulinus truncatus under semi-field …

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Integration of prevention and control measures for female genital schistosomiasis, HIV and cervical cancer

Dirk Engels, Peter J. Hotez, Camilla Ducker, Margaret Gyapong et autres

(commonly known as bilharzia) continues to be largely ignored by national and global health policy-makers. International attention for large-scale action against the disease focuses on whether it is a risk factor for the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Yet female genital …

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