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Tell Members of the G8 to Prioritize Disease Prevention!

For the past week, the Sabin Vaccine Institute and the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases have been working with a group of organizations to raise awareness of specific issues – such as global health, nutrition, the environment and corruption – in advance of the G8.

Sabin Executive Vice President, Dr. Ciro de Quadros and Dr. Neeraj Mistry, Managing Director of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, both contributed articles to the Huffington Post as a part of this effort, urging G8 member countries to prioritize prevention of diseases impacting those living in poverty around the world.

You can read the articles by clicking the links below.

Four Preventable Diseases G8 Leaders Should Keep in Mind by Dr. Ciro de Quadros

Elephantiasis, Snail Fever, Roundworm, More: Eliminating 7 Neglected Diseases that Affect World’s Poorest by 2020 by Dr. Neeraj Mistry

We hope you’ll continue to help us spread the word and work to encourage members of the G8 to focus on preventing diseases of poverty by sharing these articles via email, social media and word of mouth.

Even better, you can now record your own video message to G8 leaders via this link on the Huffington Post.  So get out your webcam and share 10 seconds of your time with our world leaders!

Our aid policy must focus on link between poverty and disease

With the G8 summit wrapping up last week in Deauville, France, the global health community is abuzz with the results of the meeting. Charles Ebikeme, who has written for End the Neglect on African Sleeping Sickness and Buruli Ulcer in the past, shared his thoughts on why the G8 countries should pay more attention to neglected tropical diseases in this recent article published in The Guardian.

“A pro-poor aid agenda aimed at tackling health provides stunning economic rates of return. For every $1 invested in control of Chagas disease in Brazil, $7 is returned. Lymphatic filariasis control in China produces a 15-fold return. Guinea worm eradication has been calculated to produce an economic rate of return of 29%. All of this without even mentioning the most important return – the life saved.”

Read the article in its entirety here.

Trachoma control community to G8 leaders: Honor commitment to eliminate NTDs

Reposted with permission from International Trachoma Institute.

By: Elizabeth Kurylo

The trachoma control community wants G8 leaders to keep promises they made last year to help control or eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases.

With an advocacy ad in the official publication, G8 Summit France- 2011, the International Coalition for Trachoma Control (ICTC) is urging leaders of the G8 nations to fulfill their 2010 commitment to  “support the control or elimination of high-burden NTDs.”

The ad, available in English and French, also announces the coming availability of ICTC’s “2020 INSight” plan to finish the job of eliminating blinding trachoma by 2020.

The 2011 G8 summit will be held in Deauville, France, on May 26th and 27th.

The G8 is comprised of the eight main industrialized countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Reading List 6/29/2010

Today’s reading list features articles all about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The topic of each article touches on at least one MDG. Article topics include G8’s commitment to maternal health, new approaches to development taken by the Obama administration, and reducing poverty. Take a look!

Promising Steps Toward International Women’s Health, Cecile Richards, The Huffington Post
, Office of the Press Secretary, The White House
G8 Nations Commit $5B For Maternal, Child Health, Medical News Today
UN chief urges G20 to ‘not balance budgets on the backs of the poorest’, UN News Center
G8 avoids bold aid promises amid budget strains, The Economic Times