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Season 11Episode 861

861 - Ending Neglect of Tropical Diseases

Mar 4, 2025
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About this episode:

Neglected diseases like mycetoma, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis impact more than a billion people worldwide every year and kill hundreds of thousands. In this episode: Why these illnesses don't get widespread attention or the resources needed for prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and how in a shifting global funding landscape, cross-sector collaboration is key to alleviating suffering.

Guests:

Delali Attipoe is the North America director of the Drugs for Neglected Disease initiative (DNDi).

Host:

Stephanie Desmon, MA, is a former journalist, author, and the director of public relations and communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the largest center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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