Neglected disease research

UAEM promotes research on neglected diseases – those diseases predominantly affecting people who are too poor to constitute a market attractive to private-sector R&D investment. UAEM is working with universities to remove barriers preventing or hindering them from embarking on neglected disease research, lobbying universities to increase the amount of research conducted on neglected diseases, and educating students and faculty about neglected diseases.

For further information:

• Kishore SP, Dhadialla PS. A student-led campaign to help tackle neglected tropical diseases. PLoS Med. 2007 Jul 24;4(7):e241.
• The Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional (Tri-I) Neglected Disease Forum, January 2007
• “Rapid-Impact Interventions”: How a Policy of Integrated Control for Africa’s Neglected Tropical Diseases Could Benefit the Poor, by David H. Molyneux, Peter J. Hotez, Alan Fenwick, PLoS Medicine (November 2005).

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