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Weekly Blog Round-Up 11/1-11/5

November 5th, 2010

This week on End the Neglect…

1. We started the week off with the new ‘Progress Game’ on the United Nations website aim to help teach more about MDGs.
2. The Global Networks communication associate, Anjana Padmanabhan has been live blogging form the The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 59th annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Her posts have included: features from the opening session, highlights of the winner of the public health communications award,and discussion of the Carters Centers mission to eliminate NTDs.
3. We have also highlighted blogs from the ASTMH blog.
4. Gechi Thou, the Global Networks Africa program officer wrote about schistosmiasis and the need to get the drug Praziquantel to women in Africa ASAP.
5. Jennifer Segal, the Global Networks communications intern wrote about highlights from the live taping of the World Health Organizations NTD report launch.

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For 1.2 Billion People, an End is in Sight

November 5th, 2010

By: Jennifer Segal

Three weeks ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its first comprehensive report on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Several country and WHO leaders, as well as experts from around the globe gathered in Geneva, Switzerland at the reports launch on October 14. The launch event began with remarks from the Director General of the WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, whose opening statements did not hold back at all on recognizing the importance of the need to eradicate NTDs. She begins with a brief background on NTDs, but her remarks become explicitly clear when she said having a NTD, the impairment and disfigurement is “a fate worse than death.” The chain of reoccurrence of NTDs has been easy to ignore, since it affects the lowest billion, living in poverty, but as stated my Dr. Chan, “…working together, an international community of partners is now breaking that chain.” » Read more: For 1.2 Billion People, an End is in Sight

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Playing Around With MDGs!

November 2nd, 2010

The United Nations has a new interactive game on its website for users to actively learn about Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Try it out, and get others to join in on the fun! You can play as a single player or as a group.

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Happy UN Day!

October 25th, 2010

Yesterday, October 24, 2010, marked the United Nations’ 65th year since its creation in 1945. Since then, The United Nations (UN) has grown to 192 member states from its humble beginnings of 51 member states, and has “has provided the world with a framework for good behavior.” To note, the UN has agreed to achieving eight international development goals by the year 2015, which are referred as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These goals include eradicating poverty, ending hunger, addressing maternal and child health, combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases, achieving environmental sustainability, among other issues as well.

Just last month, the 2010 MDG Summit took place in New York where public and private, governmental, and UN agencies convened to discuss the current progress and the next steps in achieving the MDGs. Our very own Communications Associate Anjana Padmanabhan was present at the event’s Digital Media lounge, where she live-blogged about the summit’s current happenings. End the Neglect featured this coverage and more throughout the week of the Summit.

For more information on the UN’s 65th Anniversary, please check out their website.

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