E-DRUG: Ensuring Innovation for Neglected Diseases - London 8 June
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[more details about the programme of this MSF conference announced earlier in E-drug; WB]
Conference announcement
Ensuring Innovation for Neglected Diseases
London, 8 June 2005
AIDS, Malaria, TB and tropical diseases continue to kill millions, but there are few medicines in development to tackle these age-old killers. HIV/AIDS has benefited from significant medical innovation, but the medicines are developed in the West, for the West: the lack of tools adapted for the developing world is a major challenge to scaling up treatment. Neglected diseases, which collectively continue to claim millions of lives every year, have received even less attention.
A number of new initiatives have been established to tackle the problem in the last few years. Political commitments have been made, and a range of solutions proposed to ensure that diagnostics and drugs and vaccines are developed for the developing world.
In the shadow of the G8, Midecins Sans Frontihres will hold a conference in London to discuss these issues. The conference will bring together policy makers, academics, public and private sector actors and health care workers in the developing world, to develop discussion around four broad themes:
(1) Setting priorities: who and how?
(2) Meeting the needs: a public or private responsibility?
(3) Current initiatives: opportunities and constraints
(4) The way forward
We hope very much that you will be able to attend. Please find below the provisionnal agenda.
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The meeting will take place at:
HMS President - Victoria Embankment
London, United Kingdom
from 08:30 to 18:30
Please note that there is no specific grant for this meeting, and most participants will be expected to cover their own travel expenses.
Participation is limited and there is no registration fee. To register for the conference send a message to Ms Mai Do in Paris at mdo@paris.msf.org (+ 33 1 4021 2825) with the following information:
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