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Table 1 In your opinion, what issues of global health importance today will be less important in the future?

From: Global priorities for research and the relative importance of different research outcomes: an international Delphi survey of malaria research experts

Description

No. of mentions (n = 44)

%

Communicable diseases and the ‘classical infections’

16

36

Neglected tropical diseases

5

11

HIV management

4

9

Diseases related to hygiene and sanitation, such as cholera

2

5

New emerging diseases

2

5

Inequities

1

2

Vaccines aimed at reducing mortality rather than interrupting or eliminating transmission

1

2

Car accidents

1

2

Famines

1

2

Fundamental studies of immunology, vaccinology and transgenics

1

2

Cancer and obesity

1

2

Commodity procurement

1

2

Don’t know

8

18

  1. Question asked in round 1 only