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The scar of Buruli ulcer on a patient's hand in Benin.
As with many other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), the scar of Buruli ulcer extends beyond physical manifestations and social stigma, and is exacerbated by a lack of quality care and access to effective biomedical resources. In this issue, Hausmann-Muela et al. (doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000445) argue that it is of critical importance to contextualize stigma within a broader conceptual framework of health-seeking behavior and other socioeconomic factors if the vicious circle of illness, stigma, and poverty that encapsulates the billion people suffering from NTDs is ever to be broken.
Image Credit: Susanna Hausmann-Muela
Citation: (2009) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 3(10) October 2009. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 3(10): ev03.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v03.i10
Published: October 27, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Hausmann-Muela et al.. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
As with many other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), the scar of Buruli ulcer extends beyond physical manifestations and social stigma, and is exacerbated by a lack of quality care and access to effective biomedical resources. In this issue, Hausmann-Muela et al. (doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000445) argue that it is of critical importance to contextualize stigma within a broader conceptual framework of health-seeking behavior and other socioeconomic factors if the vicious circle of illness, stigma, and poverty that encapsulates the billion people suffering from NTDs is ever to be broken.
Image Credit: Susanna Hausmann-Muela