Another great week over here at “End the Neglect!”
If you didn’t get a chance to read us this week, here’s a roundup of what you missed:
- We told you about a important new $5 million grant received by the University of Notre Dame to raise awareness of rare and neglected diseases
- An exciting new bill introduced by United States Representative Hank Johnson, Jr. could impact surveillance and treatment of neglected infections of poverty in the United States
- Dr. John Wecker from PATH talked fashion and vaccine advocacy
- Dr. Ciro de Quadros, Executive Vice President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute wrote about how far we’ve come and what still needs to be done to get rotavirus vaccination be included in all national immunization programs
- We highlighted a great success story about community drug distribution in Sierra Leone
- We learned that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Living Proof Project” will now be housed at the ONE Campaign
- We read Jimmy Carter’s piece in the Huffington Post on the need for vaccine support in the developing world
- Alanna Shaikh our weekly guest blogger discussed the health repercussions of natural disasters– focusing particularly on the recent flood in Pakistan
