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    Health Affairs Issue Focuses On HIV/AIDS, NTDs
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    The study authors propose the creation of a not-for-profit service, which they call the "Global Health Accelerator (GHA) project," that "would help get innovative NTD-related health products to distant markets by connecting a diverse international community of biotech innovators, facilitate public-private partnerships, provide business support services, and operate as an independent hub linking companies, investors, and interested parties," the news service writes. "We think of the Global Health Accelerator as a FedEx for new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics to combat neglected tropical diseases" Singer said (Leahy, 11/3). Full Article at Medical News Today
    We think of the Global Health Accelerator as a FedEx for new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics to combat neglected tropical diseases
    – Peter Singer SOURCE: Medical News Today 2 weeks ago
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Health Affairs Issue Focuses On HIV/AIDS, NTDs
  1. Rapidly developing countries like Brazil, China, India, Mexico and Russia should be able to pay for fighting their own relatively small epidemics, the authors said. Southern African countries will need only some help, despite having the world's highest AIDS rates. But much of Africa, and especially Keny...
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 2 weeks ago
  2. Global Health Accelerator (GHA) project
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 2 weeks ago
  3. But the funding shortfall is also 'a moment of opportunity,' Hecht said, 'because it's a chance for government officials and external funders to take a hard look at what they have been doing and to find ways to spend the money that is available in a more efficient way to cut down on waste,'
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 2 weeks ago
  4. even under the best case ... more than one million people would be newly infected each year. (About 2.3 million were infected in 2007.) Achieving that outcome would cost $722 billion over 22 years, or nearly $8,000 for each infection prevented
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 2 weeks ago
  5. The cost of fighting the epidemic for treatment and prevention is rising very rapidly around the world, especially in southeastern Africa
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 2 weeks ago
  6. We are not calling for replacement of the charity of multinationals. Rather, we are pointing out that there is a well of affordable innovation in developing countries themselves that has not been fully tapped
    – Peter Singer SOURCE: Medical News Today 2 weeks ago
  7. We are on the verge of a serious crisis
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 2 weeks ago
  8. Everyone thinks multinational drug companies can provide the vaccines and diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases. Our research shows that it's small biomedical companies in the developing world that are doing it
    – Peter Singer SOURCE: Medical News Today 2 weeks ago
  9. Singer and his colleagues document for the first time the innovative products and capabilities of 78 homegrown, small to medium-sized health biotechnology companies in Brazil, China, India and South Africa ... Collectively, these companies produced 123 products, including vaccines, drugs and diagnostic ...
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 2 weeks ago

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