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G20’s secret shame: ignoring tropical diseases among world’s profoundly poor

Submitted by Sabin on Fri, 2013-05-17 09:35

Whereas most people think about the NTDs as exclusive to destabilized countries such as South Sudan, Somalia, or Haiti, my recent analysis, published in Foreign Policy, has found that most of the world’s NTDs paradoxically occur in G20 countries in addition to Nigeria.

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The Africa Union Joins the Global Fight to End Neglected Tropical Diseases by 2020

Submitted by Sabin on Tue, 2013-04-30 09:50

Africa Union Health Ministers Call for Increased Investments to Rid Africa of Neglected Trop

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1 Shirt Changes the Lives of 14 Children

04.23.13

Is it really possible to change a life with a T-shirt? 14 lives? We’ve teamed up again with T-shirt company Sevenly to do just that.

Journalist Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously.

04.19.13

In a recent TED Talk, “Let's talk crap. Seriously.”, UK-based journalist Rose George discussed the significance of sanitation and the lack of access to toilets as a root for larger public health problems around the world.

Vaccine publishes special supplement dedicated to Decade of Vaccines

04.18.13

To highlight the extensive body of knowledge collected in developing the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), the journal Vaccine today relea

Vaccine publishes special supplement dedicated to Decade of Vaccines

Submitted by Sabin on Thu, 2013-04-18 10:07

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.”