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TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 260-267Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2007.03.010
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Many parasitic diseases have been eradicated in industrialized countries and well-proven tools and techniques exist to control them. However, the same diseases still cause incalculable ill health and suffering in the developing world. The difficulty remains how best to apply existing solutions where they are most needed. Within a period of 25 years following World War II, Japan eliminated many parasitic diseases and raised national health and living standards to world-leading levels. Gradually, the predominantly community-driven and intersectoral collaborative partnership systems (i.e. private sector, public sector, general public, etc.) and practices that worked in Japan are being extended to Asia and now Africa. These are backed by the provision of substantial human and financial resources from a nation whose population retains the reputation as being the healthiest and longest living in the world.
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