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* UK Announces Support for Global Fight Against NTDs
April 17, 2008
In an effort to mobilize action towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals, the United States and United Kingdom joined together to pledge $1.62 billion to health and health care workers, including a commitment to NTD control.
"...By putting in place this foundation for stronger health, we also build upon existing initiatives, including to address the issue of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Approximately one billion people, mostly in the developing world, suffer from one or more NTDs. Building upon the President's announcement in February, the United Kingdom will support this effort to control or eliminate seven major NTDs. We will challenge other donors, including our G8 partners, foundations, and public, private, and voluntary organizations to meet the balance of this need to have a positive affect on the lives of hundreds of millions people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America..." For White House press release, click here.
* President Bush Announces New Global Initiative to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases
February 20, 2008
President Bush announced today a $350 million commitment for the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases over the next five years. Funding will provide integrated treatment for more than 300 million people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and target seven major NTDs. This investment increases the United States’ commitment to NTDs by $335 million and will target approximately 30 countries by 2013. President Bush is also challenging other donors, including G-8 partners, foundations, and public, private and voluntary organizations to complement his commitment by collectively providing an additional $650 million to close the funding gap for the treatment of NTDs.
Nicholas D. Kristof: Removing the N from Neglected Tropical Diseases
By Josh Ruxin- February 11, 2008
Josh Ruxin is a Columbia University expert on public health who has spent the last couple of years living in Rwanda. He’s an unusual mix of academic expert and mud-between-the-toes aid worker.
Last month in Bujumbura, Burundi, a remarkable meeting of medical practitioners and policymakers from that country and Rwanda was held without fanfare or press to examine the results of a two-country initiative to reduce the prevalence of neglected tropical diseases (NTD’s) through the newly-formed Global Network for NTDs. Even though the most infamous NTD’s are scarcely known outside of classrooms and the offices of public health experts, they have a devastating impact on one billion people worldwide.
* New York Times Op-Ed columnist, Nicholas D. Kristof, discusses the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases after his recent trip to Africa - July 2, 2007
"Quiz time: So what do hundreds of millions of ordinary schoolchildren around the world possess that American kids almost never get? Answer: Worms.
My win-a-trip journey to Africa, with a teacher and a student, has taken us to regions where most people are "poly-parasitized." So while in Congo, I picked up doses of deworming medicine for myself and those travel partners who wanted it. (It's over-the-counter here. In the U.S. the simplest approach is to ask a vet for medication to deworm a St. Bernard.)..."
* Alyssa Milano named founding ambassador of the Global Network - June 29, 2007

Washington, D.C. - June 28, 2007 - The Sabin Vaccine Institute, a leader in the fight against "diseases of poverty," announced today that actress Alyssa Milano has been named the founding ambassador of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Disease Control (GLOBAL NETWORK). The GLOBAL NETWORK, based at the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington, D.C., is comprised of the major global health partnerships devoted to the control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). In her role as ambassador, Milano will work to raise the profile of NTDs by educating the media and general public of the plight faced by the one billion people afflicted by them, and the importance in controlling and preventing this global health crisis...
Click here to learn more about Alyssa Milano
* Peter Hotez discusses Neglected Tropical Diseases on Bloomberg Television - May 25, 2007
* A Whole New Level of Care - May 13, 2007
If he is dreaming, Dr. Peter Hotez doesn't want to wake up - at least until billions of poor people in developing countries get treatment for nightmarish diseases most people in the United States have never heard about.
Two decades ago, as universities across the country were dismantling their tropical disease departments, the West Hartford native and Hall High School graduate spent most of his time at Yale University desperately trying to scrape together money to create a vaccine to kill the obscure hookworm.
Even though 500 million people suffer from the parasite that burrows under the skin, sucks blood from the intestine and is a major cause of anemia and mental retardation, the disease was on virtually nobody's radar...
* Geneva Global Awards 8.9 Million to Global Network - March 8, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 8, 2007 – The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseas Control (GNNTDC) announced today that it has been awarded an $8.9 million USD grant via Geneva Global Inc. to fund a campaign to control and eliminate seven neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in two East African countries, Rwanda and Burundi. The grant, the largest single grant from a Geneva Global client, will be used to develop a “rapid-impact” treatment program that will be rolled out in both countries during the summer of 2007. NTDs are disfiguring and life-threatening parasitic and bacterial infections that afflict and stigmatize more than 1 billion people living in the most impoverished areas of the developing world. These easily treatable diseases, such as schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis and trachoma, largely forgotten in richer countries, prevent hundreds of millions of people from building a better future for themselves and their families. The GNNTDC is a global network of major health organizations dedicated to helping control and eliminate the most prevalent NTDs through a program of advocacy, resource mobilization and access to essential drugs and vaccines...