InfectiousDiseases ofPoverty, the first five years

Wang, Wei; Chen, Jin; Sheng, Hui-Feng; Wang, Na-Na; Yang, Pin; Zhou, Xiao-Nong; Bergquist, Robert

On October 25, 2012 , Infectious Diseases of Poverty (IDP) was launched as a new, open-access (OA) journal on infectious diseases by BioMed Central, in partnership with the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its preferential aims are to identify and assess research and information gaps that hinder progress towards new interventions for public health problems, in particular those connected with poverty in the developing world. Based on the "One health, One world" mission mentioned in the Global Report on Research for the Infectious Diseases of Poverty [21] , the journal publishes work on topics and approaches that address essential public health questions related to this issue. Along with the actions proposed by this report, IDP, aims to achieve the goal of improving research capacity and create a better environment for the research on the infectious diseases of poverty [19, 22] .