The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Apr 2013   Volume 13  Number 4   p277 – 376
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/issue/current

Editorial
Two birds with one stone
The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Preview
As the global burden of disease shifts from infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases are rising up the health agenda with, at first glance, demands for attention and funding that conflict with those of communicable diseases. However, rather then a focus on disease-specific responses, some researchers have suggested a more creative approach. At the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases meeting on coinfections held in London, UK, on February 12, Ib Bygbjerg presented his ideas on how certain diseases could be treated together, since the consequences of communicable and non-communicable diseases seem tightly intertwined in low-income and middle-income countries.