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It’s World AIDS day, 2010. How are we doing?

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By: Alanna Shaikh

2010 was an excellent year for progress against HIV – as long as you only look at the science side. Glance over at treatment and prevention and the news gets a lot more depressing. It’s been a year of big science breakthroughs and painful funding shortfalls on treatment and prevention. PEPFAR scaled down its ambitions and the Global Fund faces ugly gaps.

On the research side, we’ve had a really good year for HIV. We’ve seen some exciting news, especially in the last few months. We just found out last week that the same antiretrovirals which treat HIV will prevent it when taken by uninfected people. A clinical trial of 2,499 men found that proactively taking ARVs reduced HIV risk among participants by 43.8%. In July, scientists announced that they had discovered three powerful antibodies that can neutralize HIV; this could be a big step forward to an HIV vaccine and improving the effectiveness of ARV drugs.

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

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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

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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.” Continue reading →

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