Pandemic COVID-19 and Endemic Neglected Tropical Diseases: Friends or Foes?

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens public health systems worldwide, both in developed and developing countries. The authors of this article discuss various effects of the pandemic on the status of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). COVID-19 will be a public health issue for an extended period. COVID-19 presented several challenges and opportunities for NTD prevention and control. Significant alterations include impact of the pandemic on preventive/control measures and poverty-related plans, service failures and injury to health workers, delayed treatment of NTDs, health service funding, and worsening poverty in marginalized societies. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated school and university closures on public education and research institutes. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has also provided opportunities, such as improving health literacy, changing approaches to NTD treatments, restructuring the health system and emergency responses, and enhancing science communication.

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.15212/ZOONOSES-2023-0024

Zoonoses is fully open access journal for research scientists, physicians, veterinarians, and public health professionals working on diverse disciplinaries of zoonotic diseases.

Zoonoses is now open for submissions; articles can be submitted online at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/zoonoses

Please visit https://zoonoses-journal.org/ to learn more about the journal.

Editorial Board: https://zoonoses-journal.org/index.php/editorial-board/

Zoonoses is available on ScienceOpen (https://www.scienceopen.com/search#collection/839df240-327f-47dd-b636-9b728dff9700).

Submissions may be made using ScholarOne (https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/zoonoses).

There are no author submission or article processing fees.

Follow Zoonoses on Twitter @ZoonosesJ; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Zoonoses-Journal-100462755574114 ) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/zoonoses/)

eISSN 2737-7474

ISSN 2737-7466

Mehdi Borhani Zarandi, Xuemin Jin and Saeid Fathi et al. Pandemic COVID-19 and Endemic Neglected Tropical Diseases: Friends or Foes?. Zoonoses. 2023. Vol. 3(1). DOI: 10.15212/ZOONOSES-2023-0024