fern hill
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posted 09 April 2006 03:00 PM
In the Medecins sans Frontieres (excuse lack of accents, I'm working on a foreign computer) newsletter, I was just reading about Chagas disease in Bolivia, where I have a foster child. In the article, there is mention of this MSF initiative and the website. Link. This is from the 'about' section. quote:
About DNDiIn 2003, seven organisations from around the world joined forces to establish DNDi: five public sector institutions – the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation from Brazil, the Indian Council for Medical Research, the Kenya Medical Research Institute, the Ministry of Health of Malaysia and France’s Pasteur Institute; one humanitarian organisation, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF); and one international research organisation, the UNDP/World Bank/WHO’s Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), which acts as a permanent observer to the initiative. For 30 years, MSF has directly witnessed the human cost of the lack of drugs for neglected diseases and has raised its voice against this inequity; the Pasteur Institute invests heavily in biological research on infectious diseases; TDR works on 10 neglected infectious diseases that affect poor and marginalized populations; the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation dedicates its resources to medical R&D; the Indian Council for Medical Research sponsors and coordinates medical research in India; and the Malaysian Ministry of Health is dedicated to building partnerships for health.
They're focussing on three diseases initially. Pretty neat, eh? Next time I have some spare dough, I'm going to send them some.
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