The principal diseases affecting the population of Madagascar are malaria, tuberculosis, bilharziasis, cysticercosis, leprosy, plague, cholera (on the decline) and HIV/AIDS.

(d) Sanitation helps reduce or eliminate diseases and sicknesses such as schistosomosis, other diseases caused by worms, diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid fever, cysticercosis, teniasis and hepatitis;

(b) Regular collection, processing and permanent disposal of garbage reduces the number of cases of plague, yellow fever, dengue, toxoplasmosis, leishmaniasis, cysticercosis, salmonellosis, teniasis, leptospirosis, cholera and typhoid fever;

Approximately 1 billion people — one sixth of the world population, or one person in six — suffer from one or more neglected tropical diseases such as Buruli ulcer, cholera, cysticercosis, dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), foodborne trematode infections, hydatidosis, leishmaniasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, trachoma and trypanosomiasis.

Manual for Prevention, Monitoring and Control of taeniasis/cysticercosis; National Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases Programme (Five-Year Plan 2003-2007); National Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases Programme - Annual Plan for 2004; Five Year Leishmaniasis Plan 2006-2010; Strategic Plan aimed at reducing the incidence and prevalence of leprosy in Bolivia, 2006; Manual of standards and procedures for leprosy in Bolivia, 2005; Emergency Dengue Prevention and Control Plan in High-Priority Municipalities, 2005; Dengue Monitoring and Control Plan, 2005; Manual of standards for the prevention, monitoring and elimination of rabies, 2001; Five-year plan 2004-2008 for the “Rabies-free municipalities” national rabies control programme.