Happy Friday Readers! Check out what we talked about on End the Neglect this week!
- The Global Network got an awesome opportunity to showcase a 15 second spot on the CBS Superscreen in New York City! Check out the video and join Alyssa Milano and Text “LIFE” to 30644 to End The Neglect!
- Our wonderful communications/grassroots intern Linda shared her experience in Honduras as a student volunteer working on construction projects for impovrished communities.
- We got a little clinical when discussing Lymphatic Filariasis in our second “Worm of the Week” installment.
- We got excited about the 30th anniversary of smallpox eradication!
- Alanna Shaikh talked sandflies and giant sores, with a great article on leishmaniasis, a horrific neglected tropical disease threatening 350 million men, women and children in 88 countries!
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also had some great articles about smallpox this week, so we were excited to reprint them here for your reading pleasure!





