September called neglected diseases has just become a little less neglected. This morning, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new grant of $ 34 million in support of a global network that aims to reduce the rates of easily treatable infectious diseases that affect as much as 1.4 billion poor people.
Although research and budgets of treatment for HIV / AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis has exploded in recent years, many lesser known tropical diseases have not had nearly the same attention, even if the charge of their group health is just as high or higher, and cheap, effective drugs exist for the seven most common, says Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute at the school of medicine and health sciences in Washington DC George Washington University and a founder of the global Network for neglected tropical diseases.
A portion of the grant, announced today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, will be used to help beat the more financial support for the network, Hotez said, while the rest go to treatment scale seven infectious diseases in developing countries. The septet includes ascariasis, hookworm, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma and trichuriasis.
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