E-drug: MSF Conference: The Crisis in R&D for Neglected Diseases
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The Crisis of Neglected Diseases: Developing Treatments and Ensuring Access
An international conference sponsored by M�decins Sans Fronti�res/Doctors
Without Borders (MSF)
Thursday, March 14, 2002
The Graduate Center
City University of New York (CUNY)
New York City
Communicable diseases kill 14 million people each year. Effective new
medicines are urgently needed to treat illnesses like tuberculosis,
malaria, and sleeping sickness. But drug research and development, guided
by commercial interests rather than public health needs, is at a virtual
standstill for diseases that affect the poor. Join leading international
researchers, policy makers, public health experts and pharmaceutical
representatives in addressing this global crisis. Help build an effective
international response that puts patients' needs ? not profits ? at the top
of the health research and policy agenda.
For more information see
www.neglecteddiseases.org
dnd-conference@newyork.msf.org
212-847-3147
Advance registration recommended. There is no fee but space is limited.