Elimination of visceral leishmaniasis as a public health problem in Bangladesh: Lessons learned and questions remaining.
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| Title: | Elimination of visceral leishmaniasis as a public health problem in Bangladesh: Lessons learned and questions remaining. |
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| Authors: | Chowdhury R; Communicable Diseases Surveillance Unit, World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Improvement of Urban Public Health Preventive Services Project, Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Hazarika A; Communicable Diseases Surveillance Unit, World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Sultana S; Communicable Diseases Surveillance Unit, World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Hossain MS; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Saha S; Communicable Diseases Surveillance Unit, World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Nabi SG; Institute of Public Health Nutrition (IPHN), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Sohel ANM; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Ghatail Upazila Health Complex, Ghatail, Tangail, Bangladesh., Rana MJ; Communicable Diseases Surveillance Unit, World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Rahman M; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Khan MH; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Maheswary NP; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Former Department of Medical Entomology, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Kroeger A; Centre for Medicine and Society, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.; UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland., Yajima A; Department of Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India., Mondal D; Emerging Infections and Parasitology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh., Adnan SD; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Jhora ST; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Department of Microbiology, Green-Life Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Islam MN; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Hospital Service Management Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Basher A; Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Infectious and Tropical Medicine Department, Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), Mymensingh, Bangladesh., Shamsuzzaman AKM; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; National Institute of Laboratory Medicine & Referral Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Ahmed BN; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Faiz MA; Dev Care Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Alvar J; Leishmaniasis Programme, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland.; Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland., Bern C; Department of Epidemiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America., Aktaruzzaman MM; Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
| Source: | PLoS neglected tropical diseases [PLoS Negl Trop Dis] 2026 Feb 24; Vol. 20 (2), pp. e0013949. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Feb 24 (Print Publication: 2026). |
| Publication Type: | Journal Article; Review |
| Journal Info: | Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101291488 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1935-2735 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19352727 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLoS Negl Trop Dis Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Database: | MEDLINE Ultimate |
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| ISSN: | 1935-2735 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pntd.0013949 |
