{"id":1157,"date":"2016-03-30T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2016-04-18T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T04:18:49","slug":"the-neglected-tropical-disease-global-movement-and-the-public-health-case-for-scabies-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2016\/03\/30\/the-neglected-tropical-disease-global-movement-and-the-public-health-case-for-scabies-control\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neglected Tropical Disease global movement, and the public health case for scabies control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/161147337\" width=\"896\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 30\/03\/16\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference\u201d (Elie Wiesel).\u00a0Neglected tropical diseases (\u201cNTDs\u201d) are a group of diverse infectious diseases that afflict the poorest of the poor, and efforts to curb their effects have been hampered by indifference. The NTDs are frequently chronic and debilitating diseases, and contribute to an ongoing cycle of poverty through their negative effects on human health, their economic impact on families and through\u00a0stigmatisation. Around the time of the\u00a0launch\u00a0of the\u00a0Millennium\u00a0Development Goals, a global movement began that aimed to control and even\u00a0eventually\u00a0eliminate the NTDs. Much progress has been made since that time with\u00a0large and highly effective programmes\u00a0established in many low and middle income countries, with ongoing support from several major non-governmental\u00a0organisations as\u00a0well as individual governments themselves. A key feature of these\u00a0control programmes has been implementation of mass drug administration as a central component. Although a latecomer to the NTD movement, scabies is a classic NTD and recent evidence produced by Andrew and his group suggest that mass drug administration may be a highly effective strategy for control of the disease at a public health level,\u00a0although a number of challenges lie ahead.\u00a0Andrew will chart the history of the NTD movement, describe the NTDs themselves, introduce scabies as a NTD and discuss future public health and research priorities to advance global control of scabies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Associate Professor Andrew Steer<\/strong> is a\u00a0consultant paediatrician and infectious diseases physician in the Department of General Medicine at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital;\u00a0principal research fellow at the Centre for International Child Health in the\u00a0Department\u00a0of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne; and group leader of the Group A Streptococcal Research Group at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. He is also a founding committee member of the International Alliance for the Control of Scabies. A\/Prof Steer\u2019s research interests are epidemiology and control of tropical childhood skin diseases\u00a0particularly\u00a0scabies; group A streptococcal clinical and molecular epidemiology; group A streptococcal vaccine research; and rheumatic heart disease pathogenesis, epidemiology and control. He also enjoys swimming long distances in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference\u201d (Elie Wiesel). Neglected tropical diseases (\u201cNTDs\u201d) are a group of diverse infectious diseases that afflict the poorest of the poor, and efforts to curb their effects have been hampered by indifference. 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