About the Authors
- Jorge Alvar
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Alvar, Margriet den Boer
* E-mail: alvarj@who.int
Affiliation Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM), Leishmaniasis Control Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Iván D. Vélez
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Affiliations Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM), Leishmaniasis Control Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, PECET, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
- Caryn Bern
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Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, National Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Mercé Herrero
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Affiliation Disease Prevention and Control Programmes, World Health Organization, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Philippe Desjeux
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Affiliation Institute of OneWorldHealth, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Jorge Cano
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Affiliation National Centre for Tropical Medicine and International Health, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Jean Jannin
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Affiliation Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM), Leishmaniasis Control Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Margriet den Boer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jorge Alvar, Margriet den Boer
Affiliation Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM), Leishmaniasis Control Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- the WHO Leishmaniasis Control Team
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¶For a full list of the members of the WHO Leishmaniasis Control Team please see the Acknowledgments section.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Wrote the paper: JA IV CB MdB. Performed surveys to obtain Individual Country Data: JA IV MdB. Supported Regional Meetings to obtain Individual Country Data: JA IV MH JJ MdB. In addition to these authors the WHO Leishmaniasis Control Team should be mentioned, this consists of Daniel Argaw (WHO/HQ), Sujit Bhattacharya (WHO/SEARO), Mikhail Ejov (WHO/EURO), Ana Nilce Elkhouri (WHO/PAHO), José Antonio Ruiz-Postigo (WHO/EMRO), and Josep Serrano (WHO/HQ). Critical editing of Individual Country Data: PD. Map Design: JC.