Snail fever
A Constitutional Amendment for Deworming
August 25, 2009
In February 2009, The Washington Post reported that three South American countries, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, have either launched or completed ambitious efforts to rewrite their constitutions in order to expand the social and economic rights guaranteed to its citizens [2]. The fact that millions of indigenous children and women in Latin America suffer from intestinal helminth infections is especially tragic because we can do something about these conditions through interventions that are astonishingly low cost [4].
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.
Sabin Vaccine Institute Welcomes National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine
9 July 2009
On Thursday, July 9th, Sabin Vaccine Institute will host a group of students from the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine. The students will experience presentations from Sabin's Vaccine Development Program, the Global Network, and the Vaccine Advocacy & Education Program. They will also tour the laboratories at George Washington University where the Vaccine Development Program is currently developing vaccines for hookworm and schistosomiasis, diseases that continue to afflict hundreds of thousands of people living in developing countries around the world.
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