Incorporating a Rapid-Impact Package for Neglected Tropical Diseases with Programs for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

New initiatives in global health have done much to raise funds and elevate public awareness in order to launch a serious war on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Conspicuously absent from these activities, however, has been commensurate advocacy for a group of diseases that exclusively affect the poor and the powerless in rural and impoverished urban areas of developing countries. An increasing body of evidence indicates that this group of "neglected tropical diseases" may not only threaten the health of the poor as much as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, or malaria, but even more importantly, may have effective treatment and prevention strategies that can be delivered for less than US$1 per capita per year.…

• BA
  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• GF
  Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria