New medicine for neglected diseases

Every year millions of people in developing countries die from infectious tropical diseases such as the sleeping sickness, lepra or malaria. They die because there are no affordable and effective drugs to tackle them. Safe, affordable, effective and field-adapted vaccines and drugs are unfortunately not available due to the lack of research and development in the field of tropical diseases: of all new medicines developed between 1975 and 1999, only 1 % was developed for tropical neglected diseases and tuberculosis! Most of the drugs still used were developed in colonial times. They are often expensive, difficult to administer and hard to tolerate. Several of them, like the drugs against tuberculosis, are becoming ineffective because of increasing parasite resistance.

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