abstract: 'The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for an integrated

  response, the kind that has defined Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

  efforts in the past decade.

  NTD interventions have the greatest relevance for SDG3, the health goal,

  where the focus on equity, and its commitment to reaching people in need

  of health services, wherever they may live and whatever their

  circumstances, is fundamentally aligned with the target of Universal

  Health Coverage. NTD interventions, however, also affect and are

  affected by many of the other development areas covered under the 2030

  Agenda. Strategies such as mass drug administration or the programmatic

  integration of NTD and WASH activities (SDG6) are driven by effective

  global partnerships (SDG17). Intervention against the NTDs can also have

  an impact on poverty (SDG1) and hunger (SDG2), can improve education

  (SDG4), work and economic growth (SDG8), thereby reducing inequalities

  (SDG10). The community-led distribution of donated medicines to more

  than 1 billion people reinforces women''s empowerment (SDG5), logistics

  infrastructure (SDG9) and non-discrimination against disability (SDG16).

  Interventions to curb mosquito-borne NTDs contribute to the goals of

  urban sustainability (SDG11) and resilience to climate change (SDG13),

  while the safe use of insecticides supports the goal of sustainable

  ecosystems (SDG15). Although indirectly, interventions to control

  waterand animal-related NTDs can facilitate the goals of small-scale

  fishing (SDG14) and sustainable hydroelectricity and biofuels (SDG7).

  NTDs proliferate in less developed areas in countries across the income

  spectrum, areas where large numbers of people have little or no access

  to adequate health care, clean water, sanitation, housing, education,

  transport and information. This scoping review assesses how in this

  context, ending the epidemic of the NTDs can impact and improve our

  prospects of attaining the SDGs.'
affiliation: 'Bangert, M (Corresponding Author), WHO, Dept Control Neglected Trop
  Dis, 20 Ave Appia, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

  Bangert, Mathieu; Fitzpatrick, Christopher; Engels, Dirk, WHO, Dept Control Neglected
  Trop Dis, 20 Ave Appia, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

  Molyneux, David H., Univ Liverpool Liverpool Sch Trop Med, Dept Parasitol, Liverpool,
  Merseyside, England.

  Lindsay, Steve W., Univ Durham, Dept Biosci, Durham, England.'
article-number: '73'
author: Bangert, Mathieu and Molyneux, David H. and Lindsay, Steve W. and Fitzpatrick,
  Christopher and Engels, Dirk
author-email: bangertm@who.int
author_list:
- family: Bangert
  given: Mathieu
- family: Molyneux
  given: David H.
- family: Lindsay
  given: Steve W.
- family: Fitzpatrick
  given: Christopher
- family: Engels
  given: Dirk
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1186/s40249-017-0288-0
eissn: 2049-9957
files: []
issn: 2095-5162
journal: INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF POVERTY
keywords: Neglected tropical diseases; Sustainable development goals
keywords-plus: 'SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTHS; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; CHAGAS-DISEASE; LYMPHATIC

  FILARIASIS; LATIN-AMERICA; UROGENITAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS; GENITAL

  SCHISTOSOMIASIS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC ASPECTS;

  TREATMENT PROGRAMS'
language: English
month: APR 4
number-of-cited-references: '199'
orcid-numbers: 'Bangert, Mathieu/0000-0003-1320-8145

  Fitzpatrick, Christopher/0000-0002-3067-8328

  Lindsay, Steve/0000-0002-3461-9050'
papis_id: 2e5b5eb9fd3363a5159169cd4f672ef1
ref: Bangert2017crosscuttingcontribu
researcherid-numbers: 'Bangert, Mathieu/K-7233-2019

  '
tags:
- review
times-cited: '93'
title: The cross-cutting contribution of the end of neglected tropical diseases to
  the sustainable development goals
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000398503700001
usage-count-last-180-days: '4'
usage-count-since-2013: '74'
volume: '6'
web-of-science-categories: Infectious Diseases; Parasitology; Tropical Medicine
year: '2017'