by dswen | Nov 30, 2018 | Advance
In agreeing their position on the EU’s future research programme for 2021-2027 this week, EU Council of Ministers support R&D funding for HIV & AIDS, TB, malaria and other diseases of poverty, but fail to push for an increase in health research funding....
by dswen | Dec 3, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
International investment in Ebola-related research in 2014 was almost solely responsible for increases in R&D spending on neglected tropical diseases; while public funding for non-Ebola R&D has dropped mostly due to decline in US government funding, the EU...
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by dswen | Feb 24, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Poverty related and neglected tropical diseases affect more than one billion people around the world. AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as Dengue fever and Chagas disease are responsible for the deaths of over 6 million people...
by Cecile Vernant | Apr 15, 2014 | Youth Empowerment
Poverty related and neglected tropical diseases or diseases of the poor and neglected? Sleeping sickness, leprosy, dengue, parasitic worms, all these so-called neglected tropical diseases or “NTDs” are known to us. In addition, they are also widespread:...
by dswen | Apr 2, 2014 | Youth Empowerment
As an organisation that is heavily involved in the fight to eradicate poverty-related and neglected diseases, we are proud to share with you information on a high-level event in Paris this afternoon! The event “Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases: A...
