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January 30, 2012

The London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases serves as a new generation Marshall Plan for the bottom billion, but with a priority on girls and women living in poverty to wipe out the 10 most common NTDs by 2020.

Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, describing a new partnership between 13 pharmaceutical companies, the U.S., U.K. and U.A.E governments, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and other organisations.

(Source: The Huffington Post)

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