Assessment of the impact of implementation research on the Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) elimination efforts in Nepal.

• Main Authors: Anand Ballabh Joshi (Author), Megha Raj Banjara (Author), Sachi Chuke (Author), Axel Kroeger (Author), Saurabh Jain (Author), Abraham Aseffa (Author), John C Reeder (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Nepal, Bangladesh, and India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in 2005 to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis (VL) as a public health problem from the Indian subcontinent by 2015. By 2021, the number of reported VL cases in these countries had declined by over 95% compared to 2007. This dramat...