6. Many of these features are excellently summarized in World Health Organization, 2003.
7. Specific citations of ancient references on NTDs can be found in Hotez et al., 2006b.
8. Details of the estimates for deaths and DALYs resulting from the NTDs can be found in Hotez et al., 2006a, and Murray et al., 2012.
9. Specific references for these data can be found in Hotez et al., 2007; Hotez and Ferris, 2006; and Hotez et al., 2009.
10. Interviews and qualitative analysis of patients with LF are described in Perera et al., 2007.
11. Some of the details about the relationships between stigma and health are outlined in Weiss and Ramakrishna, 2006. In addition, there are excellent descriptions of the stigmatizing aspects of NTDs in World Health Organization, 2003. In May 2008, a special issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases was devoted to the links between stigma and NTDs, with a lead article by Mitchell Weiss (Weiss, 2008). The effects of NTDs on the general and specific aspects of mental health were recently summarized in Litt et al., 2012.
12. The three levels of neglect are described in greater detail in World Health Organization, 2006, p. 3.
13. Hunt, 2006.
14. Hotez et al., 2007.
15. Details of the END7 campaign can be found at end7.org and www.globalnetwork.org. Details on the student-led efforts can be found at Kishore and Dhadialla, 2007.
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