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Experts say controlling neglected diseases will boost fight against HIV, TB, malaria

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 21st, 2006

Achieving success in the global fight against the "big three" diseases - HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which together account for 5.6 million deaths a year - may well require a concurrent attack on the world's most neglected tropical diseases, says a team of researchers.

The team published its findings in the international open access journal PLoS Medicine, and presented its work at a meeting on malaria and the neglected tropical diseases at the Nobel Forum, Stockholm, on January 30-31, 2006, organized by the UN Millennium Project and hosted by Karolinska Institute and the Nobel Forum.

The neglected tropical diseases, such as leprosy...

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