Abstract
EDITOR,—In their article on the future of tropical medicine Kevin M De Cock and colleagues point out that Northern perspectives of tropical medicine are rooted in the past, with a heavy emphasis on parasitic and other infectious diseases.1 They believe that tropical medicine should now focus on the health problems of poor societies living in areas with a warm climate, where poverty rather than parasitic disease is the dominating influence. They also comment that traditional tropical medicine has ignored the burden of non-infectious disease and mention diseases related to …
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