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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 4.
Published in final edited form as: Ethiop Med J. 2017;55(Suppl 1):3–14.

Table 1.

Number of deaths and mortality rate of common neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia, both sex, 1990 - 2015

Diseases 1990 2015 Median % change mortality rate, 1990-2015

Number of deaths (95% UI) Deaths/100,000 (95%UI) Number of deaths (95%UI) Deaths/100,000 95%UI)
All NTDs 6293(3699, 10080) 15.5(10.6,23.2) 3593(2051, 6178) 3.9(2.2,7.0) -70.0
Schistosomiasis 993.4(599.2, 1470.7) 6.1(3.5,9.4) 249.4(118.1,453.4) 0.53(0.23,1.0) -91.3
Leishmaniasis 373.9(139.0, 800.8) 0.74(0.3,1.49) 615.0(248.5,1240.3) 0.58(0.23,1.22) -21.6
Intestinal nematode infections 300.2(89.7,481.4) 0.34(0.12,0.54) 122.6(69.1,184.9) 0.09(0.05,0.13) -73.5
Rabies 1786.9(854.9,3159.1) 4.1(2.2,6.6) 1242.5(632.6,2659.3) 1.5(0.72,3.33) -63.1