Greetings from End the Neglect!

Learn something new; Catch up with happenings around the world; Supplement your coffee with some of our reading suggestions below!

1. Germany’s dedication to fighting neglected and rare diseases

Diseases that mainly affect the world’s poorest are often neglected by research in industrialized nations, as they are not particularly relevant to highly developed countries.

1. Understanding the ins and outs of Economics towards an improved global vitality

One cost of the uproar over Greg Mortenson, and the allegations that he fictionalized his school-building story in the bestselling book Three Cups of Tea, is likely to be cynicism about whether aid makes a difference.

1. Why are more than 1 billion people hungry in the world? Is it true?

For many in the West, poverty is almost synonymous with hunger.

1. Local Production of Drugs can be beneficial to global health system development.

Events shaping the global pharmaceutical industry provide an unprecedented opportunity for the least developed countries (LDCs) to attract investment in the pharmaceutical sector, including from other developing countries […]

1. China’s Three Gorges Dam has ‘urgent’ environmental problems

Environmental deterioration in the Three Gorges Dam region of China is forcing the government to acknowledge “urgent problems” which include landslides, seismic activity, relocations of citizens, and biodiversity loss.

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