BRICS Can Advance Efforts To Eliminate NTDs, Paper Says

Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases’ “End the Neglect”: BRICS in the Response to Neglected Tropical Diseases
Alex Gordon, communications associate for the Global Network and the Sabin Vaccine Institute, discusses a paper (.pdf) published in the WHO Bulletin titled, “BRICS in the response to neglected tropical diseases.” The paper “explains how the BRICS [(Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)] could draw upon their own experiences tackling domestic global health challenges to further advance global efforts to control and eliminate NTDs by 2020” (6/6).

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