Tagged: disease

  • Navigating the path to neglected tropical disease elimination following a historic funding pledge

    As 2023 came to a close, global donors joined together to pledge US$777.2 million to accelerate progress toward eliminating certain neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

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  • There’s no more time to waste: Let’s find the missing cases of TB

    Tuberculosis (TB) has now overtaken HIV as the world’s leading cause of mortality. There were about 10.4 million TB cases in 2016, despite the fact that TB is an old and often curable disease whose incidence declined in industrialized countries long before the introduction of the TB vaccine and anti-TB drugs. TB continues to disproportionately affect low-income countries. For those of us who work in public health, this is tragic — we ought to be moving forward at a much faster pace to end TB for good.

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