Global Network for NTDS

The Evolving Role of the Private Sector in Global Health

Submitted by Sabin on Wed, 2013-01-09 10:57

Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Senior Partner of Rabin Martin, and Adel A. F. Mahmoud, M.D., Ph.D, retired President of Merck Vaccines, write about the role of the private sector and public-private partnerships in the Huffington Post.

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Innovation to Fund Global Health

01.08.13

Last Friday, The Hill’s Congress Blog highlighted the innovative ways governments, NGO’s and the private sector are using to aid for global health.

How political neglect lets an epidemic of blindness go unchecked

Submitted by Sabin on Wed, 2013-01-02 15:20

By Russell Skelton, The Age

HUGH Taylor's war on trachoma began 35 years ago. As a young doctor, he travelled the red dirt roads of the Tanami Desert in a beat-up Land Rover with the late Fred Hollows dispensing medical help to an estimated 10,000 Aboriginal men, women and children with the catastrophic eye disease.

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Comprehensive Study Reports on "Global Burden of Disease"

12.21.12

Last week, researchers published the “Global Burden of Disease Study 2010,” the most comprehensive effort since the GBD 1990 to produce complete and comparable estimates of the burden of diseases and other health challenges.

What’s an NTD to do without WASH?

12.18.12

Photo above Credited to Esther Havens - India
By Anupama Tantri
The magnitude of the problem is significant…
783 million people do not have access to safe water.
2.5 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation.