[Ip-health] MSF Conference: Ensuring Innovation for Neglected Diseases

[Mike Palmedo]

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Conference announcement - Ensuring Innovation for Neglected Diseases

London, 8 June, 2005

AIDS, Malaria, TB and tropical diseases continue to kill millions, but
there are few medicines in development to tackle these age-old killers.
HIV/AIDS has benefited from significant medical innovation, but the
medicines are developed in the West, for the West: the lack of tools
adapted for the developing world is a major challenge to scaling up
treatment.

A number of new initiatives have been established to tackle the problem
in the last few years. Political commitments have been made, and a range
of solutions proposed to ensure that diagnostics and drugs and vaccines
are developed for the developing world.

In the shadow of the G8, M=E9decins Sans Fronti=E8res will hold a conferenc=
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in London to discuss these issues. The conference will bring together
policy makers, academics, public and private sector actors and health
care workers in the developing world, to develop discussion around four
broad themes:

(1)   Setting priorities: who and how?
(2)   Meeting the needs: a public or private responsibility?
(3)   Current initiatives: opportunities and constraints
(4)   The way forward

We hope very much that you will be able to attend. A preliminary agenda
will be available shortly.

Registration

There is no registration fee. To register for the conference send a
message to Ms Mai Do at mdo@paris.msf.org with the following information:

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Title:
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