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Understanding how neglected tropical diseases affect chronic diseases can help inform health policies, say Peter Hotez and Abdallah Daar.

FDA priority review vouchers will not necessarily encourage research into tropical diseases, argues Aaron Kesselheim.

Malaria control efforts should be joined with those of neglected tropical diseases to achieve eradication, say Peter J. Hotez and David H. Molyneux.

Public-private partnership organisations have failed to include African researchers on an equal basis, say T. J. Tucker and M. W. Makgoba.

Elimination of blinding trachoma is entirely possible by 2020, says the New England Journal of Medicine.

Peter J. Hotez believes the establishment of a new financing mechanism is vital for the control and eradication of neglected diseases.

Amy C. Morrison and colleagues outline key preventative measures for controlling the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads disease.

Greg W. Fegan and Trudie A. Lang urge the use of open-source database systems to increase the scope and variety of clinical trials.

Peter J. Hotez argues that the Guantanamo camp should be converted into a research institute for Latin America's neglected diseases.

Brazil should use its resources to form a public–private partnership to tackle its neglected disease burden, says Peter J. Hotez.