Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis burden at the village level in selected high visceral leishmaniasis endemic upazilas in Bangladesh
The existence of PKDL cases in the VL endemic areas is a concern as those are inter-epidemic reservoirs. As per the WHO roadmap, the PKDL burden must be reduced by 70 % and 100 %, respectively, by 2026 and 2030. NKEP can take the current burden of 1.3 per 10,000 people in VL endemic villages as a baseline. Integrating active case detection for PKDL in leprosy hospitals and screening centers is feasible and worth deploying nationwide.
Authors
- Soumik Kha Sagar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6784-7893)
- Shomik Maruf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8463-5326)
- Dinesh Mondal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9154-8327)
- Md. Utba Rashid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2530-9982)
- Megha Raj Banjara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5024-6127)
- M. M. Aktaruzzaman
- Rupen Nath
- Axel Kroeger
- Abraham Aseffa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8028-1150)
- Debashis Ghosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3746-9414)
- Nazmul Islam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7986-7101)
- Abu Nayeem Mohammad Sohel
- Md Rasel Uddin
Institutions
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (BD)
- World Health Organization (CH)
- Directorate General of Health Services (BD)
- Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2024-08-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107213
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.71
Funders
- World Health Organization
- UNICEF
- Ohio State University
- TDR
- Action Damien