Press Releases 2010

Press Releases 2010

White House called on to expand Global Health Initiative
[New York, USA - February 24, 2010] 
Funding Needed to Combat Most Deadly Neglected Diseases
The Obama administration’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) does not go far enough in combating the most lethal neglected tropical diseases for which an estimated one billion people are infected, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) said today.

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Press Releases 2010

New recommendations to enhance registration processes of drugs for neglected diseases in Africa 
[Geneva, Switzerland/ Pretoria, South Africa - February 19, 2010] 
A report commissioned by DNDi assesses pathway to facilitate review of new neglected diseases’ drugs by African experts 
Today, at the ‘Council on Health Research for Development’ (COHRED)  and ‘The New Partnership for Africa's Development’ (NEPAD) meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and the George Institute for International Health release the report “Registering New Drugs: the African Context”. The report issues new recommendations to strengthen regulatory authorisation processes in Africa for drugs against neglected diseases. 

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Press Releases 2010

$10,000 challenge launched to fight infectious diseases affecting 30 million people
[London/Geneva - January 29, 2010] 
Infectious diseases that affect 30 million people worldwide are the focus of a new Challenge posted today on the nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion (www.nature.com/openinnovation). The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) is looking for potential targets for drugs against African Sleeping Sickness, Visceral Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, and Chagas Disease.

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