Current Press Releases

Infectious Disease Experts Applaud New U.S. Funds to Treat Long-Neglected Diseases of the Poor
By: Global Health Council
Date: 2005/11/11
The U.S. Congress today approved $15 million in new funds to treat several little-known but debilitating diseases affecting impoverished populations around the globe. Over 350 million people have been disabled or severely impaired by the targeted diseases... (read more)

News Articles

"Rapid-Impact Interventions": How a Policy of Integrated Control for Africa's Neglected Tropical Diseases Could Benefit the Poor
By: David H. Molyneux, Peter J. Hotez*, Alan Fenwick - PLoS Medicine
Date: November 2005
Over the past two decades there have been significant achievements in the control of a handful of important human tropical infections. These achievements include the substantive reductions in the prevalence and incidence of the so-called neglected diseases such as lymphatic filariasis... (read more)

$200 mln urged to fight neglected African diseases
By: Ben Hirschler - Reuters
Date: 2005/10/11
Parasitic diseases afflicting millions of African adults and children could be treated and cured for just $200 million a year, a tiny fraction of the amount earmarked to fight AIDS, medical experts said on Tuesday... (read more)

Ignored diseases 'kill 500,000'
By: BBC News World Edition
Date: 2005/10/10
Millions of people are being affected annually by tropical diseases which are being ignored, claim researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The diseases kill at least 500,000 people a year but are neglected by doctors, policymakers and public health officials. (read more)