How does academia respond to the burden of infectious and parasitic disease?

Table 5 Global share of research effort and disease burden for always low and very-high group

		IPD	Tuberculosis	STDs excluding HIV	HIV/AIDS	Diarrheal diseases	Childhood-cluster diseases	Meningitis	Encephalitis	Hepatitis	Parasitic and vector diseases	Intestinal nematode infections	Leprosy
2000–2004
Low	DALYs	51.95	26.48	41.17	48.25	46.33	64.72	58.14	19.09	19.27	78.04	13.36	12.76
Low	Pubs	3.63	4.92	1.76	0.90	1.37	2.82	2.15	0.29	0.57	7.41	1.44	6.62
Very high	DALYs	0.46	0.50	1.90	1.34	0.12	0.02	0.67	1.12	3.56	0.03	0.48	0.17
Very high	Pubs	72.31	65.18	85.35	82.45	75.35	81.83	80.98	82.23	81.69	58.64	77.64	48.38
2005–2009
Low	DALYs	51.13	28.44	46.40	45.83	47.97	61.26	63.71	21.12	20.87	77.34	15.55	13.60
Low	Pubs	4.35	4.29	2.85	5.39	1.82	3.52	2.71	0.48	1.36	8.24	2.03	4.12
Very high	DALYs	0.47	0.43	2.19	0.89	0.24	0.02	0.57	1.22	2.92	0.03	0.38	0.18
Very high	Pubs	61.74	58.07	78.45	71.38	67.87	78.66	70.15	78.20	73.52	52.81	70.30	40.53
2010–2014
Low	DALYs	51.01	30.17	52.63	47.79	51.56	52.86	63.39	20.29	21.23	75.43	17.70	14.94
Low	Pubs	5.64	6.16	2.45	2.66	3.36	5.09	3.83	0.46	2.42	9.35	2.62	3.39
Very high	DALYs	0.53	0.38	2.50	0.83	0.42	0.03	0.61	1.42	2.34	0.03	0.38	0.19
Very high	Pubs	55.02	51.22	73.10	63.68	60.76	73.46	64.24	68.55	63.61	49.00	63.48	35.99
2015–2019
Low	DALYs	52.78	33.78	57.61	49.23	53.80	62.62	67.11	23.67	22.46	73.71	19.29	15.54
Low	Pubs	7.07	7.64	3.89	8.66	4.09	6.04	5.95	0.88	4.07	10.29	3.94	3.57
Very high	DALYs	0.59	0.36	2.48	0.89	0.60	0.03	0.59	1.55	2.23	0.04	0.36	0.21
Very high	Pubs	48.29	43.55	65.21	56.55	51.80	65.69	57.56	63.15	55.48	44.32	55.76	30.48

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