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Forms of Social Justice

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By Mawish Raza, Communications Intern for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases

I have always been keen to recognizing different social justice movements. However, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are new to me. As someone who has recently joined the Global Network to advocate action against NTDs, what has struck me most is the lack of awareness and priority placed on preventing and ending the spread of these diseases.

Governments in developing nations invest a great deal of time and effort to encourage and stabilize their economies in order to increase profits. Yet halting the dispersion of NTDs is also a key component in optimizing production in industries such as agriculture and fishing. Individuals that are impacted by NTDs often live in poverty and don’t have the capacity to fight the diseases they are faced with. NTDs influence the lifestyle and attitude of not only individuals that are affected, but of their larger community – from their own family to their neighbors. Each day that a person isn’t able to go to work or make it to school is one less day that could have provided a step to profitable and personal enrichment. The impact of NTDs isn’t an issue that works in isolation; it impacts the larger community. These diseases create deeper roots for poverty to sustain in these poorly assisted communities – a poverty that not only impacts the social structure of a community, but one that digs deep into the health and mind.

The fact of the matter is that in order to bring an end to the spread of NTDs, the global community needs to address its existence.  Recognizing these diseases draws light to the fundamental influences that handicap individuals, which further impact the nation’s economy, literacy rate and development. Continue reading →

NTD Reading Breakfast.

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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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