Bhutta, Z.Salam, R.Das, J.Lassi, Z.2015-11-092015-11-092014Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2014; 3(1):28-1-28-62049-99572049-9957http://hdl.handle.net/2440/96321Multilingual abstracts in the six official working languages of the United Nations are online as an additional file.This series evaluates the effectiveness of community-based interventions (CBIs) to prevent and control infectious diseases of poverty (IDoP). Evidence from our reviews suggests that CBIs and school-based delivery platforms are effective in averting risk behaviors and reducing the disease burden. Co-implementation of interventions through existing community-based programs including immunization campaigns, antenatal care and maternal and child health programs have the potential to scale-up interventions for IDoP. Future research should focus on the process of developing and implementing efficient community-based programs through a comprehensive approach, and to gauge the effectiveness of various existing delivery models in order to improve morbidity and mortality outcomes.en© 2014 Bhutta et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.Community platformsCommunity-based interventionsHIV/AIDsInfectious diseases of povertyMalariaNeglected tropical diseasesTuberculosisJournal article003003803110.1186/2049-9957-3-282-s2.0-84919488431218552Lassi, Z. [0000-0002-5350-6334]