G20’s secret shame: ignoring tropical diseases among world’s profoundly poor
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Last May the World Health Assembly passed a ground-breaking resolution endorsing the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to achieve ambitious immunization goals, making this decade the “Decade of Vaccines.”
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The London conference on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) held in January was a seminal moment in the global fight against a group of diseases which are often overshadowed in the global health agenda by HIV, malaria and TB.
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Sabin President Dr. Peter Hotez's latest editorial, titled “Campaign Spending: What Else Can $2 Billion Buy?” was recently published in the Huffington Post. The editorial discusses how the amount of money spent on this year’s presidential campaign could have also been used to treat and control NTDs in various regions around the world.
See the original article in the Huffington Post here.
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The Sabin Vaccine Institute congratulates the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG) on releasing the 3rd Annual Report for the UK Coalition against NTDs.