Editing Snakebite (section)

==Research==
In 2018, the [[World Health Organization]] listed snakebite envenoming as a neglected tropical disease.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Minghui R, Malecela MN, Cooke E, Abela-Ridder B | title = WHO's Snakebite Envenoming Strategy for prevention and control | journal = The Lancet. Global Health | volume = 7 | issue = 7 | pages = e837–e838 | date = July 2019 | pmid = 31129124 | doi = 10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30225-6 | doi-access = free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Schiermeier Q | title = Snakebite crisis gets US$100-million boost for better antivenoms | language = EN | journal = Nature | date = May 2019 | pmid = 32409762 | doi = 10.1038/d41586-019-01557-0 | s2cid = 189458866}}</ref> In 2019, they launched a strategy to prevent and control snakebite envenoming, which involved a program targeting affected communities and their health systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=Snakebite: WHO targets 50% reduction in deaths and disabilities |url=https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/06-05-2019-snakebite-who-targets-50-reduction-in-deaths-and-disabilities |website=[[World Health Organization]] |access-date=30 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Williams DJ, Faiz MA, Abela-Ridder B, Ainsworth S, Bulfone TC, Nickerson AD, Habib AG, Junghanss T, Fan HW, Turner M, Harrison RA, Warrell DA | display-authors = 6 | title = Strategy for a globally coordinated response to a priority neglected tropical disease: Snakebite envenoming | journal = PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases | volume = 13 | issue = 2 | pages = e0007059 | date = February 2019 | pmid = 30789906 | pmc = 6383867 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007059 | doi-access = free}}</ref> A policy analysis however found that the placement of snakebite in the global health agenda of WHO is fragile due to reluctance to accept the disease in the neglected tropical disease community and the perceived colonial nature of the network driving the agenda.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bhaumik |first1=Soumyadeep |last2=Zwi |first2=Anthony B. |last3=Norton |first3=Robyn |last4=Jagnoor |first4=Jagnoor |date=2023-08-01 |title=How and why snakebite became a global health priority: a policy analysis |url=https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/8/e011923 |journal=BMJ Global Health |language=en |volume=8 |issue=8 |pages=e011923 |doi=10.1136/bmjgh-2023-011923 |issn=2059-7908 |pmid=37604596 |pmc=10445399}}</ref>

Key institutions conducting snakebite research on snakebite are the George Institute for Global Health, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and the Indian Institute of Science.