Diseases Targeted
The tropical diseases that will benefit include the following:
- Tuberculosis.
- Malaria.
- Blinding trachoma.
- Buruli Ulcer.
- Cholera.
- Dengue/dengue haemorrhagic fever.
- Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease).
- Fascioliasis.
- Human African trypanosomiasis.
- Leishmaniasis.
- Leprosy.
- Lymphatic filariasis.
- Onchocerciasis.
- Schistosomiasis.
- Soil transmitted helmithiasis.
- Yaws.
- Any other infectious disease for which there is no significant market in developed nations and that disproportionately affects poor and marginalized populations.
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