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New Sources of Funding Needed to Control and Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases
An editorial published by Sabin President Dr. Peter Hotez today in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Neglected Tropical Diseases, calls on the G8, Gulf Cooperation Council nations, and neglected tropical disease (NTDs) endemic countries, such as Nigeria and Indonesia, to fund global NTD control efforts.
Despite a growing awareness of NTDs as both a global health and security threat, the burden of funding has been primarily shouldered by three nations—the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan, states Dr. Hotez in the editorial “Neglected Tropical Disease Control in the “Post-American World.”
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Global Health Dignitaries Conclude Smallpox Eradication Symposium with Recommendations for Advancing Disease Eradication
Over 260 scientists, public health workers, historians and other professionals from 34 countries successfully closed the “Smallpox Eradication after 30 Years: Lessons, Legacies and Innovations” symposium today with a statement of recommendations to the global health community and general public.
In the statement, participants observe that smallpox eradication removed from humanity a disease which killed an estimated 300 million individuals in the twentieth century alone. The global smallpox eradication program also led to several advancements including the expansion of national vaccination programs, use of epidemiological surveillance as a key tool in disease control, and, most significantly, great progress toward the global eradication of polio and Guinea Worm and the elimination of measles and rubella from the Americas.
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