Elimination of visceral leishmaniasis as a public health problem in Bangladesh: Lessons learned and questions remaining

• Rajib Chowdhury ,

  * E-mail: rajib478@yahoo.com

  Affiliations 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8128-9832

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• Anupama Hazarika ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anupama Hazarika, Md Sakhawat Hossain

  Affiliation Communicable Diseases Surveillance Unit, World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Sabera Sultana,

  Affiliation Communicable Diseases Surveillance Unit, World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md Sakhawat Hossain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anupama Hazarika, Md Sakhawat Hossain

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Shampa Saha,

  Affiliation Communicable Diseases Surveillance Unit, World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Shah Golam Nabi,

  Affiliations 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

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• Abu Nayeem Mohammad Sohel,

  Affiliations Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Ghatail Upazila Health Complex, Ghatail, Tangail, Bangladesh

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• Md Jewel Rana,

  Affiliation Communicable Diseases Surveillance Unit, World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Mizanur Rahman,

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Manzurul Haque Khan,

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Narayan Prosad Maheswary,

  Affiliations 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

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• Axel Kroeger,

  Affiliations 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

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• Aya Yajima,

  Affiliation Department of Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

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• Dinesh Mondal,

  Affiliation Emerging Infections and Parasitology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Sheikh Daud Adnan,

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Sanya Tahmina Jhora,

  Affiliations 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

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• Md Nazmul Islam,

  Affiliations 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

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• Ariful Basher,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Infectious and Tropical Medicine Department, Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), Mymensingh, Bangladesh

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• Abul Khair Mohammad Shamsuzzaman,

  Affiliations 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

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• Be-Nazir Ahmed,

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md Abul Faiz,

  Affiliations Dev Care Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Jorge Alvar,

  Affiliations Leishmaniasis Programme, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland, Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Caryn Bern,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Mallick Mohammad Aktaruzzaman

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Control Unit, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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