The international pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline publicize October 14 that it will donate 400 million more tablets for the treatment of intestinal worms in children. This comes as the World Health Organization is calling on drug companies to donate more tablets to help to eradicate tropical diseases. The WHO says in a latest report that one billion people in the world's poorest countries are chronically ill from tropical diseases that receive little notice from drug manufacturers and health organizations.
The diseases leishmanaisis, chagas, dengue and 14 others are unknown to several people in developed countries, or are thought to have been eradicated long ago. But the World Health Organization says they cause massive, hidden affliction that keeps millions of people in poverty. And the WHO is calling on governments, donors and pharmaceutical companies to help decrease those numbers significantly. Dr. Peter Hotez is a specialist in tropical diseases. He says that these parasitic diseases are rampant even though they are simply treatable.
"The neglected tropical disease program of USAID, which is also funded through global health initiative, in some cases can lead to the removal of some very important neglected tropical diseases such as lymphatic filariasis, perhaps river blindness and leprosy," he said. Dr. Hotez says that these diseases can often be treating with a single pill. But there is often is no funding for proven and cheap treatments. "Out of 10 billion exhausted annually, only 65 million, less than one percent, is spent on deserted tropical diseases. We have to begin bringing that up because these conditions are just as significant and we can do something about them through mass drug administration."
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The diseases leishmanaisis, chagas, dengue and 14 others are unknown to several people in developed countries, or are thought to have been eradicated long ago. But the World Health Organization says they cause massive, hidden affliction that keeps millions of people in poverty. And the WHO is calling on governments, donors and pharmaceutical companies to help decrease those numbers significantly. Dr. Peter Hotez is a specialist in tropical diseases. He says that these parasitic diseases are rampant even though they are simply treatable.
"The neglected tropical disease program of USAID, which is also funded through global health initiative, in some cases can lead to the removal of some very important neglected tropical diseases such as lymphatic filariasis, perhaps river blindness and leprosy," he said. Dr. Hotez says that these diseases can often be treating with a single pill. But there is often is no funding for proven and cheap treatments. "Out of 10 billion exhausted annually, only 65 million, less than one percent, is spent on deserted tropical diseases. We have to begin bringing that up because these conditions are just as significant and we can do something about them through mass drug administration."
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