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A Note from the Global Network

With great regret The Sabin Vaccine Institute announces the resignation of Kari Stoever.

Global Network Launches Signature Grassroots Campaign, Just 50 Cents, with Campus Challenge Contest

Today the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases launched its signature grassroots funding and awareness campaign, Just 50 Cents. A major component of Just 50 Cents is the Just 50 Cents Campus Challenge, a contest which provides an opportunity for full-time undergraduate and graduate college students to become Student Ambassadors in the fight to prevent and eliminate the world’s most neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The contest will run from November 2, 2009 to April 2, 2010.

Global Network and Malaria No More Applaud Expansion of the Congressional Malaria Caucus Mandate to Include NTDs

Inclusion Emphasizes Strong Linkages between Malaria and NTDs and Cost-Efficient Joint Control Programs

Published on 10.28.09

The Global Network and Malaria No More praise the Congressional Malaria Caucus and its Co-Chairs, Chairman Donald M. Payne and Representative John Boozman, for announcing today the expansion of the Caucus’ mandate to include attention to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

New Analysis Reveals that Neglected Tropical Diseases are Devastating Member Nations of the Islamic Conference

A new analysis in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, reveals that disabling, debilitating and sometimes deadly neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are devastating the member nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The OIC is comprised of 57 nations and serves as the “collective voice of the Muslim world.”

Pres. Clinton Announces Commitment from IDB, Global Network, and PAHO to Fight NTDs in the Americas

Announcement Includes Partnership with Major Organizations including Miss Universe; Brazilian National Soccer Team; Deworm the World; GlaxoSmithKline; Lew Lara/TBWA; Maureen Orth; and Partners for Philanthropic Change

New York, September 23, 2009 —At the Clinton Global Initiative today, the Inter-American Development Bank joined with the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases to announce their commitment to mobilize $30 million from the public and private sectors to raise awareness and funding for NTD control and elimination in the Amer

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