After discussing neglected diseases with NGOs and PDPs, I was curious to hear from the pharmaceutical sector.
For drugmakers, investing a small amount in neglected diseases--besides being the right thing to do--could help quiet the cascade of criticism.
We have contracts with TB Alliance, MMV (Medicines for Malaria Venture) and DnDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative).
For drugmakers, investing a small amount in neglected diseases--besides being the right thing to do--might help quiet the cascade of criticism.
For drugmakers, investing a small amount in neglected diseases-besides being the right thing to do-could help quiet the cascade of criticism.
In the past, ideas for drugs to treat malaria and other neglected diseases often languished in labs because of hard economics.
To address this shortfall, the National Institutes of Health announced last year that the new Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases Program would develop drugs for rare diseases.
Indeed, in Dr Moran's opinion, current proposals such as advanced-purchase commitments, in which governments try to create a paying market by promising to buy large amounts of new products designed to combat neglected diseases run the risk of swaying industry toward for-profit, do-it-yourself drug development.
As a group, PDPs like OneWorld Health, Medicines for Malaria Venture, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, and the Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics target diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, Chagas, HIV and AIDS, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, a group of parasitic infections caused by worms.
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The World Health Organization lists two tapeworms of its list 17 neglected tropical diseases that need action.
And it would stimulate more drug company research into other neglected tropical diseases, by proving there is a market for these treatments.
The largest coordinated effort to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases was announced at an event at the Royal College of Physicians in London.
In the Lords (from 3pm) there's more detailed consideration of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill and a short debate on combating neglected tropical diseases.
In the morning I had the privilege of joining Bill and Melinda Gates at the launch of a special program to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Neglected Tropical Diseases is an umbrella term for a range of bacterial, parasitic and worm infections which flourish in areas with poor water quality and inadequate sanitation.
The other parasite, Sarcocystis neurona, was a surprising find in the tissues of dead marine mammals, researchers reported Tuesday in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
The university said that while significant efforts were being made in early stage drug discovery, there was a bottleneck when it came to the lead optimisation stage of molecules targeting these so called "neglected" diseases.
Overseas visits: 9-11 September 2008, to Paris to attend the French Coalition Against Malaria Forum in my capacity as voluntary non-executive Chairman of the Malaria Consortium and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(5), e1142.
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My travel, accommodation and associated costs were met by the Malaria Consortium. (Registered 8 October 2008) 14-25 September 2008, to Nigeria, Uganda and Southern Sudan to visit Malaria Consortium Projects in my capacity as voluntary non-executive Chairman of the Malaria Consortium and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
My travel, accommodation and associated costs were met by the Malaria Consortium. (Registered 8 October 2008) 7-11 December 2008, to Senegal, at the invitation of the Global Fund against Aids, TB and Malaria, as Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, and voluntary Chairman of the Malaria Consortium (NGO), for the Global Fund Partnership Forum 2008.
Yet, until the last few years, the industrialized world neglected many developing-world diseases, even as malaria and aids spiraled out of control in Africa.
The ills of the poor are neglected: of the 1, 223 drugs introduced between 1975 and 1996, only 13 were aimed at tropical diseases.
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