Scott Torres

TL;DR: The current experience of the NTD Control Program demonstrates clearly that an integrated approach to control or eliminate these five neglected diseases can be effective at full national scale.

TL;DR: Results highlight the need for health promotion and education efforts focused on increasing basic knowledge of stunting, its causes, and its health effects among Indonesian mothers.

TL;DR: In this article, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) began to support national programs integrating their neglected tropical disease (NTD) program activities, the expected impact on individual disease-specific programs was unclear, particularly with respect to program financing and coverage.

TL;DR: Indonesian mothers are using a variety of platforms and services to acquire information about stunting, including posyandu, puskesmas and the Internet, which suggests that each may continue to be a resource for mothers that might not otherwise access stunting information.

TL;DR: This paper describes how one government project (Indonesia’s National Nutrition Communication Campaign [NNCC]) delivered effective behavior change communications interventions that reached 40 million people and provides useful lessons for similar campaigns.