A pathway for skin NTD diagnostic development

Donna Huber on November 25, 2024

A timeline showing icons for symptom onset, clinical evaluation, skin NTD diagnostic testing, treatment initiation, and follow-up from left to right.

Fig 1. A typical journey for a skin NTD patient.

 

The present document outlines the next steps recommended by the Skin NTDs subgroup of the DTAG to operationalise individual disease TPPs and to advance the NTD road map approach of scaling up integrated approaches to skin NTDs.

Michael Marks, Sundeep Chaitanya Vedithi, Wendy W J van de Sande, Bruno Levecke, Anthony W Solomon, Kingsley Asiedu, Camilla L Ducker, Patrick Lammie, Daniel Argaw Dagne, Isra Cruz; WHO Diagnostic Technical Advisory Group on Neglected Tropical Diseases. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024 Nov 25;18(11):e0012661. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012661. eCollection 2024 Nov.