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IN THIS ISSUE:
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Integrated Strategy for NTD Control
2007 Treatment Updates
Local Rotary Club Fighting NTDs
NTD Champions: Meet Uche Amazigo
Reports from the Field: Burundi
Partnership Highlight: Accenture
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CARE
...that millions are disabled and dying from diseases that can be prevented and treated.
JOIN
...the cause. Stand in solidarity with the 5 year old who has a 50% chance of being infected.
SHARE
...the NTD story. Educate others and advocate for NTD control.
LEAD
...the fight to eliminate NTDs. Even $1 can make a difference when drugs cost 50 cents per person per year.
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Burundians waiting to receive Ivermectin treatment
Welcome to the NTD Advocate, the Global Network e-newsletter. Our alliance of global health and international development organizations is dedicated to reducing the worldwide burden of NTDs. As a leading advocate for the world's poorest people in sub-Saharan Africa, Asian, and the Americas, the Global Network looks foward to hearing your comments and your interest to join us in the fight against chronic disease, disability, and poverty.
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Integrated Strategy to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases
A "blueprint" for controlling and potentially eliminating the seven most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) afflicting the "poorest of the poor"-2.7 billion people living on les than $2 per day-has been published in the September 6,2007 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine. [Read More]
View NEJM article |
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Update: 34 Million People Targeted for Treatment in 2007
Ghana, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have successfully completed the first integrated mass drug administration. [Read More]
View Press Release
Testing children for Anemia, Burundi |
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Local Rotary Club Combating NTDs Through Loose Change Initiative
 On July 2, 2007 Nicholas D. Kristof, the well known New York Op-ed columnist, discussed neglected tropical disease (NTDs) in the New York Times. Kristof’s piece, “Attack of the Worms”, inspired Westport Sunrise Rotary Club member Denis Wong to take action and raise funds for the elimination and control of NTDs. [Read More]
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NTD Champions: Meet Uche Amazigo
Throughout the 1980’s, Uche Amazigo, after years as a lecturer on tropical diseases, dedicated herself to educating rural women about health, nutrition and general disease prevention. It was during one of these rural house visits in Nigeria that she met a young woman who would change the course of her career. [Read More] |
Reports from the field: Burundi Update
On August 9th, 2007 a ceremony was held for the distribution of Ivermectine in Bururi Province, Rumonge town in the presence of the newly appointed Minister of Public Health, Mme. Rose Gahiru; the Governer of Bururi; the administrator of Rumonge town; local health officials; community distributors; and representatives from the donor and implementing agencies. [Read More]
Traditional Burundian dance at the opening ceremony
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Partnership Highlight: Accenture
The Global Network had the opportunity to receive an in-kind donation of time and services from consultants from Accenture's Health and Life Sceiences Research & Development and Strategy divisions. [Read More]
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Focus on Human African Trypanosomiasis
Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a deadly parasitic disease transmitted by tsetse flies. Tsetse flies can pick up the parasite from cattle, then transmit it to human blood through their bite. [Read More]
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