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Tropical Disease Experts Call For A "Global Fund To Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases"
March 25, 2008
An international team of tropical disease control experts has urged the global health and development community, and particularly the G8 leaders, to establish a new financing mechanism to combat the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) of poverty.
A "Global Fund to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases," say Professor Hotez (Sabin Vaccine Institute and George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA) and colleagues, would "satisfy an urgent need to support NTD control and elimination." Their argument is published in the March 26th issue of the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
The NTDs, such as intestinal worms, schistosomiasis, elephantiasis, and river blindness, represent the most common infections of the world's poorest-the bottom billion. They are a major reason, say the authors, why the world's poorest people cannot escape a vicious, downward spiral of poverty.
© 2008 MediLexicon International Ltd
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/101625.php
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 26 March 2008
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