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December 2010
US support key to recent breakthroughs in global health science, GHTC director writes
December 14, 2010 -- “It’s been a monumental year for scientific achievements in global health. Trials of new HIV prevention technologies—a vaginal gel and a pill for prevention—have shown promising results. New vaccines for tuberculosis, malaria, and dengue fever are on the cusp of development, and new collaborations have formed to help advance other needed tools,” Kaitlin Christenson, coalition director of the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC), writes in a “Science Speaks” blog post. She adds that many of these achievements—as well as recent breakthroughs in a new faster diagnostic for tuberculosis (TB) and a new meningitis vaccine—received support from US agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “The new TB diagnostic tool, the meningitis vaccine and the new HIV prevention tools all show the American commitment to global health research, as well as some measures of global support. US agencies like the CDC and NIH have supported many of these recent achievements. It is imperative that this support continues,” Christenson writes, concluding, “US policymakers should ensure that federal agencies engaged in global health research are fully funded so they can carry on this lifesaving work. Doing so can give us all hope that groundbreaking achievements in global health research—like those we saw this week, and others that are so desperately needed—will continue into the future.” See the link below for more details.
