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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Reproduced from original article in ASTMH News - February 2012 </strong></span><br><BR><br><BR><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Society
Applauds London Declaration to Combat 10 NTDs by 2020</strong></span><BR><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt"><strong><br></strong></span><BR><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt"></span><BR><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td><table style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:5px" align="right"><tbody><tr><td><img style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:5px" alt="" src="http://sherwood-astmh.informz.net/sherwood-astmh/data/images/london_decl_240.jpg" border="0" align="right"></td></tr></tbody></table>In
London on January 30, 13 pharmaceutical companies, the U.S., U.K. and U.A.E. governments,
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and other global health organizations
announced a new, coordinated push to accelerate progress toward eliminating or
controlling 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the end of the decade. The
Society <a href="http://sherwood-astmh.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMTQxODUxJnA9MSZ1PTEwMzMxMTI2NDQmbGk9MTAyNDgwMDI/index.html" target="_blank">issued a statement</a> in support of this historic and visionary
declaration.<BR><br><BR>A live webcast of the event featured Dr. Margaret
Chan, Director General, WHO; Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;
the CEOs of nine leading pharmaceutical companies; senior government officials
from Tanzania, Mozambique, Brazil and Zanzibar; and leaders in government, business
and medicine. View the webcast <a href="http://sherwood-astmh.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMTQxODUxJnA9MSZ1PTEwMzMxMTI2NDQmbGk9MTAyNDgwMDM/index.html" target="_blank">here (http://www.unitingtocombatntds.org/)</a>.<BR><br><BR>View the Global Network's <a href="http://sherwood-astmh.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMTQxODUxJnA9MSZ1PTEwMzMxMTI2NDQmbGk9MTAyNDgwMDQ/index.html" target="_blank">END7 video</a> (http://www.end7.org/) supporting the fight to end NTDs around the
world.<BR></td></tr></tbody></table> </div></body>
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