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Weekly Blog Round Up! 10/4-10/8

October 8th, 2010

This week on End the Neglect…

1. We discussed International Day of Nonviolence and how it attributes to NTDs.
2. Alanna Shaikh wrote about  set backs and program failures  in the public health.
3. Dr. Peter Hotez was recognized twice on the blog for his influential  voice on research and his article published in the Huffington Post focusing on the Obama-Clinton Guatemala apology and NTDs and Latin America.
4. We had a video feature about child and maternal health.
5. Laura Gonzalez the Global Networks Program Associate wrote about Notre Dame’s Haiti relief related weekend events!
6.We had a great and interesting post about Chaga’s disease and the fact that many US physicians are not familiar with it.

Peter Hotez Featured in the Huffington Post!

October 7th, 2010

Sabin Vaccine President, Peter Hotez, is featured today in the Huffungton Post in which he wrote an article titled, “Clinton-Sebelius-Obama Apologies for Guatemala Are Just the First Step.” Hotez’s article discusses how,”Extremely low cost solutions are available for controlling the most common NTDs throughout Latin America. Through yearly mass deworming with medicines donated by the major drug companies or those purchased as low-cost generics, it is possible to drastically reduce the number of intestinal worms in the children of Guatemala and elsewhere. This approach has been shown to improve childhood growth and development, school performance and attendance, and may even lift children out of devastating poverty.”

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Reading List 9/20-9/24

September 24th, 2010

A lot going on in the world of global health and NTDs today! This Friday we’re reading about scientists who are trying to  develop stronger relationships with the FDA in order to gain support on NTDs, new diet pills that contain parasitic worms that really do not support weight loss, and for the first time in US history Obama signed a Directive on Global Development .

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Calls for Stronger FDA Science Investment to Better Fight Diseases of Poverty Worldwide, Biomedicine
How Far Would You Go Just to Lose Weight? Would You Eat Parasitic Worms?, Robert Rister
President Obama’s Global Development Policy, Office of the Press Secretary

USAID Admin Raj Shah Makes an Appearance at UN Week Digital Media Lounge!

September 23rd, 2010

It’s day 3 here at the UN Week Digital Media Lounge, and we got a nice surprise this morning. USAID Administrator Dr. Raj Shah stopped by for a quick discussion moderated by Sen. Tim Wirth, President, UN Foundation.

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