Philanthropy

4.6.10
Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases Announces Winners for the 2010 Just 50 Cents Campus Challenge
April 6, 2010: After months of creative fundraising efforts and hard work to raise awareness of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), George Washington University students came in first place for both the individual and group campaigns for the Global Network’s signature grassroots initiative, the Just 50 Cents Campus Challenge.
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3.24.10
Sudanese guinea worm on the point of eradication. What next?
Telegraph UK
It’s a particularly nasty individual, the Guinea worm. It grows as long as a metre inside its human host who has unwittingly drunk its larvae in contaminated water. It mates with another; then, after a year or so, it erupts through the person’s skin, spewing thousands of its own larvae as it goes. And so the cycle continues.
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3.12.10
Peace Through Vaccine Diplomacy
Science Magazine
Can vaccinations help to resolve conflicts and nuture diplomacy? Later this month, Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country, will host U.S. President Obama, a visit that could establish important scientific ties between the United States and Indonesia and implement a potentially powerful piece of vaccine diplomacy.
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1.25.10
Parasites: ‘Tropical’ Diseases Are Common in Arctic Dwellers, a Survey Finds
New York Times
The kind of worm and protozoan infections that are often called neglected “tropical” diseases are also common among aboriginal peoples living in the Arctic, according to a recent survey.
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2.1.10
The Gates Foundation’s expansion of its support, and the thinking that lies behind it
TropIKA.net
The Gates Foundation becomes ever more influential in research and control efforts that address the infectious diseases of poverty. At the World Economic Forum, Bill and Melinda Gates announced a new $10 billion, 10-year commitment to support vaccine development and delivery – the largest commitment the foundation has ever made.
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2.2.10
Gates Foundation Commits $13 Million to Eliminate Two Tropical Diseases
Philanthropy News Digest
The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has announced a five-year, $13 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve efforts to eliminate two parasitic diseases, elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis) and river blindness (onchocerciasis), in the developing world.
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2.2.10
The President’s Budget: Neglected Tropical Diseases
ONE
In a period of intense fiscal restraint, domestically and globally, there are going to be many global health and development advocates that are displeased by the release of President Obama’s FY2011 Budget Request today. But as one of ONE’s newest employees—and only a month out from my previous job doing policy work for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases—I have to admit that I’m quietly wearing my party hat after seeing President Obama’s request of $155 million for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
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2.2.10
Extra Money for Science in Obama’s Budget
New York Times
Calming fears that scientific research would be hurt by the Obama administration, the budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services was $81.3 billion, up from $79.6 billion a year ago. And the National Institutes of Health saw its budget request rise by $1 billion, to $32 billion, more than was requested last year.
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2.1.10
Obama Budget Aids War Zones, Global Health Programs
Bloomberg
The Obama administration proposed to boost funding on global health work and civilian and counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq in its spending plan for the State Department and related programs.
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2.2.10
Obama budget boosts funds for tropical diseases
Reuters
President Barack Obama's budget proposes a unique new initiative -- battling some tropical diseases not just to improve health but as a national security strategy.
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