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The Long Road to End Tuberculosis

Codon

Physicians working in the early 20th century had little choice but to treat the world’s most rampant infectious disease with methods such as these. Even after microbiologists discovered the bacterium that causes the illness in 1882, it wasn’t until the 1920s that researchers were able to develop a vaccine for TB.

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Sanofi expands its social commitments, creates nonprofit unit to provide poorest countries with access to essential medicines

The Pharma Data

Thirty of Sanofi’s medicines will be provided across a wide range of therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, tuberculosis, malaria and cancer. In December 2020, Sanofi announced it had renewed its five-year partnership with WHO to fight neglected tropical diseases that affect approximately one billion people.

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communication, collaboration and complementarity to address real-life problems

The Pharma Data

Many neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) result from diverse types of interactions and often complex cycles of transmission between humans and animals, both vertebrates and invertebrates, and changing social and environmental conditions.

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World Rabies Day: Boehringer Ingelheim fights rabies misconceptions

The Pharma Data

Boehringer Ingelheim again joins efforts to fight rabies under this year’s theme for World Rabies Day by GARC: “Rabies: Facts, not Fear” Boehringer Ingelheim strives to raise awareness of the disease and its preventio. A disease like rabies, from which we will best protect humans by immunizing animals, is exemplary to spotlight that.

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World Health Assembly charts course for COVID-19 response and global health priorities

The Pharma Data

For the first time, the world has rallied behind a plan to accelerate the development of the vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics we need, and to ensure they are available to all countries on the basis of equity. The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator is delivering real results. The WHA will consider a draft resolution ( EB146.R10

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First-ever global commitment to eliminate a cancer

The Pharma Data

WHO‘s Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer, launched today, outlines three key steps: vaccination, screening and treatment. Successful implementation of all three could reduce more than 40% of new cases of the disease and 5 million related deaths by 2050. Cervical cancer is a preventable disease.

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Tagging Essential Malaria Genes to Advance Drug Development

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH As a volunteer physician in a small hospital in Nigeria 30 years ago, I was bitten by lots of mosquitoes and soon came down with headache, chills, fever, and muscle aches. In 2016 alone, an estimated 216 million people were treated for the disease.