Come here every month to see the most important news on NTDs!
- Health Ministers Unite to End NTDs Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, May 19
- How Three Scientists ‘Marketed’ Neglected Tropical Diseases and Raised More Than $1 Billion International Business Times, May 14
- The World Bank Group and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Launch APOC Collection Medical Xpress, May 14
- Eliminating Diseases by Investing in WASH The Huffington Post, May 11
- Tracking Worms Troubles to Monitor a Country’s Health The New York Times, May 4
- A Smartphone Microscope Detects Parasites in Blood The Bulletin, May 8
- Papers on Antibiotic Resistance, Neglected Diseases and Future of the Ocean to be Discussed During G7 Summit News- Medical, April 30
- Diseases of Poverty: Shrinking the Map on Malaria, NTDs The Lancet, April 25
- Students Urge Congress to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases The Hill, April 22
- Ending the ‘Neglect’ in Neglected Tropical Diseases USAID, April 15
Top News Stories
Come here every month to see the most important news on NTDs!
- Mexico eliminates transmission of river blindness; Jimmy Carter and Carlos Slim partner to eliminate onchocerciasis from the Americas – Outbreak News Today 11/14/14
- How to leverage the private sector to sustain health programs: A case study from Ghana – Devex 11/18/14
- World Toilet Day: Photos Reveal How Poor Sanitation Is Causing A Gender Inequality Crisis – Huffington Post 11/19/14
- Roundup: Ensuring womens access to safe toilets is moral imperative UN chief – Xinhua News Agency 11/19/14
- Why Neglected Diseases Are Becoming A Global Danger – IO9 11/20/14
- End to indigenous trachoma in sight – The Australian 11/22/14
- Chinese Premier urges elimination of snail fever – ECNS 11/23/14
- Neglected Tropical Diseases that Kill – PLOS NTDs 12/2/14
- Unilever Helps Lead Coalition To Solve The Global Sanitation Crisis – Forbes 12/9/14
Friday Reading List
Check back here every Friday for the latest news on NTDs.
2.7 million Ugandans safe from river blindness— New Vision, 8/7/14 Private medical practitioners must set the pace — Ghana Web 8/11/14 Ajaja: The monthly environmental sanitation The Guardian, 8/13/14 Mayor Gives Away Deworming Pills to Students — The New Indian Express, 8/13/14 6 Scary Waterborne Illnesses to Watch For — The Weather Channel, 8/13/14
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Friday Reading List
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$16.5m for at-risk communities to eradicate trachoma — National Affairs, 7/11/14 Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers? — Eco-Business, 7/10/14 Public-private partnerships: A win-win for global health? — The Global Post, 7/8/14 NTDs thwart Ghanas efforts at middle income status — GhanaWeb, 7/8/14 Ministry moves to improve eye care services — Daily News, 7/7/14