Lymphatic Filariasis
The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Devastating Health and Economic Impact on the Member Nations of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
2009
by Peter J. Hotez
Sabin at CGI
September 24, 2009
The Sabin Vaccine Institute was honored to be featured twice at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative. On Wednesday, September 23, President Clinton announced 
that the Global Network joined the Inter-American Development Bank in announcing their commitment to mobilize $30 million from the public and private sectors to raise awareness and funds in support of NTD control and elimination in the Americas, supported by technical assistance from the Pan American Health Organization.
Never a Greater Need: Social Investment and Philanthropy in Times of Crisis
15 April 2009
Kari Stoever of Sabin Vaccine Institute/Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases will be a featured speaker at a breakfast sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Group of Institutes, Foundations and Enterprises (GIFE), Schwab Foundation, and Synergos Institute in conjunction with the World Economic Forum on Latin American being held from April 14th to April 16th, 2009.
Peter Hotez, Sabin Institute Featured in USA Today
March 24, 2009
USA Today
This Scientist's Passion: Ending the Scourge of Parasitic Diseases
Just 50 Cents: A Best Buy in Public Health
March 23, 2009
Neglected tropical diseases threaten millions throughout the developing world each year, but for just 50 cents, you can help fund a rapid-impact package of medications to treat the seven most common NTDs. Watch the video to learn more and find out how you change the world – through just 50 cents. Donate now!
Lymphatic Filariasis
Lymphatic Filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, affects more than 120 million people in 80 countries worldwide, and is an extremely painful, debilitating and disfiguring disease.
The Neglected Tropical Diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Disease Burden and Distribution and a Roadmap for Control and Elimination.
2008
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent some of the most common infections of the poorest people living in the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC). Because they primarily afflict the disenfranchised poor as well as selected indigenous populations and people of African descent, the NTDs in LAC are largely forgotten diseases even though their collective disease burden may exceed better known conditions such as of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, or malaria.
Holidays in the Sun and the Caribbean’s Forgotten Burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases
2008
Almost 40 million people live on the islands, islets, and cays that comprise the Caribbean. This is one of the most tourism-dependent regions in the world, with approximately one-quarter of the workforce involved in a business that in some way caters to tourists. But away from the beaches, resorts, and cruise ships, however, there lies a hidden underbelly of poverty in the Caribbean, and with this poverty, endemic neglected tropical diseases.
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