[Tropmed-l] London Declaration on NTDs

[jeffrey shaw]

Reproduced from original article in ASTMH News - February 2012  



Society
 Applauds London Declaration to Combat 10 NTDs by 2020



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 issued a statement in support of this historic and visionary
 declaration.


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 here (http://www.unitingtocombatntds.org/).


View the Global Network's END7 video (http://www.end7.org/) supporting the fight to end NTDs around the
 world.
 		 	   		   		 	   		  
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