Today, as we join in celebrating International Women’s Day, we’re reading the WHO’s comments on this day as well as reviewing a paper Dr. Peter Hotez wrote about womens health and NTDs. We’re also reading a profile of river blindness and about Buruli ulcer, one of the less discussed NTDs.
Equal rights, equal opportunities: progress for all, World Health Organization
WHO laments “shameful” lack of respect for women’s right to good health, World Health Organization
Empowering Women and Improving Female Reproductive Health through Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Peter Hotez, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Blind to the river and its hazards, Stanley M. Aronson, The Providence Journal
Buruli ulcer: an overlooked tropical disease, Robert Herriman, Examiner.com
