With the release of Obama’s proposed FY11 budget yesterday and the $155 million allocated to NTDs specifically, we’re reading many different articles about the Administration’s 9% increase in global health funding. We’re also reading about the recent $13 million grant that the Gates Foundation has given to The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to eliminate elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis) and river blindness (onchocerciasis), in the developing world. Lots of exciting things happening for the NTD community!
- White House Proposes 9% Increase in Global Health Funding, Betsy McKay, WSJ
- Obama Boosts Funding for Tropical Diseases, Maggie Fox, Reuters
- Obama Budget Aids War Zones, Global Health Programs (Update1) , Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Bloomberg
- Extra Money for Science in Obama’s Budget, Donald McNeil, New York Times
- The President’s Budget: Neglected Tropical Diseases, Erin Hohlfelder, ONE.org Blog
- Gates Foundation Commits $13 Million to Eliminate Two Tropical Diseases, Philanthropy News Digest
- The Gates Foundation’s expansion of its support, and the thinking that lies behind it, Paul Chinnock, TropIKA.net
About the author
Anjana Padmanabhan is a Communications Associate with the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases.
