id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-273833-yf8kt84e Mejia, Rojelio Global COVID-19 Efforts as the Platform to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals 2020-08-20 .txt text/plain 2544 140 50 Therefore, and as highlighted by many others, we support the notion that a way forward to eliminate this coronavirus pandemic should include linking COVID-19 control to other tropical or poverty-related diseases. To be successful and achieve the global goals including the control of pandemics such as the one seen from the COVID-19, we must rely on strong leadership leading to impactful public policies and global collaborations, including global COVID-19 vaccinations, and potentially linking them to programs for childhood and adult vaccinations and programs for malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and neglected tropical disease treatments. Accordingly, these virus-related morbidities will add to the many already found in these populations already affected by non-communicable diseases functioning as major risk factors for COVID-19, as well as other infections, including the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The poor living in urban or rural areas of high-income countries and the most impoverished living in LMICs have increased risk for both COVID-19 and tropical diseases. ./cache/cord-273833-yf8kt84e.txt ./txt/cord-273833-yf8kt84e.txt