Tag: Neglected Tropical Diseases

Integrating Treatment for AIDS and Other Neglected Tropical Diseases

by | 6.8.2011 at 8:15am | 1 Comment
Schistosomiasis can be treated with just one pill per year. Source: globalnetwork.org

Thirty years after AIDS was first reported, the United Nations will meet today to discuss next-steps toward controlling the disease. Developing countries in Africa are still the hardest hit by AIDS, but progress is being made through the framework of the Millennium Development Goals, which calls for a reversal of the spread of HIV/AIDS in [...]