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Celebrities Urge Fans to Join the END7 Campaign

——New Video Builds Momentum in Global Effort to End Neglected Tropical Diseases  In a hard-hitting new video released recently, celebrities from around the world called for support in the global effort to control and eliminate seven diseases that plague more than 1 billion people around the world, including 500 million children. In the video, international
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Ghanaian Politics: Asantehene Addresses The Wrong Audience – Observes Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jnr., Ph.D. Ghanaian Politics: Asantehene Addresses The Wrong Audience – Observes Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jnr., Ph.D.
Mai 21st, 2013

In the nation’s capital with a delegation of chiefs for a lecture on democratic political culture and governance, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei-Tutu II, was reported
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Erzeuger­preise April 2013: + 0,1 % gegen­über April 2012 Erzeuger­preise April 2013: + 0,1 % gegen­über April 2012
Mai 21st, 2013

Die Erzeugerpreise gewerblicher Produkte lagen im April 2013 um 0,1 % höher als im April 2012. Eine niedrigere Jahresveränderungsrate hatte es letztmalig im März 2010
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Women with advanced breast cancer feel left out of the breast cancer movement, new survey shows Women with advanced breast cancer feel left out of the breast cancer movement, new survey shows
Mai 21st, 2013

A new global survey sponsored by Novartis Oncology of nearly 1,300 women in 12 countries finds that despite breast cancer being the most common cancer
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Ghanaian Politics: So Long, Kojo Adu-Asare!!! – By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jnr., Ph.D. Ghanaian Politics: So Long, Kojo Adu-Asare!!! – By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jnr., Ph.D.
Mai 20th, 2013

I have before me two news articles, respectively, titled “NDC Legal Team Denies Ever Implying 2012 Polls Were Flawed,” dated May 9, 2013 and sourced
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Analysis:When the Asantehene visited Accra – By Dr Michael J.K. Bokor Analysis:When the Asantehene visited Accra – By Dr Michael J.K. Bokor
Mai 20th, 2013

My good friends, much has been said about or against me anytime I write anything to express my opinions about the Asantehene (Otumfuo Osei Tutu
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EXCLUSIVE: Telephone interview with President J.A. Kufuor, Special Envoy to the Global Network for NTDs EXCLUSIVE: Telephone interview with President J.A. Kufuor, Special Envoy to the Global Network for NTDs

—calls for prioritization of support in fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)     His Excellency, John Agyekum Kufuor served as the President of the Republic of Ghana from 2001-2009. During his presidency, he served as chairperson of the African Union (2007-08) during which he supervised the peaceful Resolution of the conflict in Kenya, among
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Novartis lauréat du Prix GBCHealth Business Action on Health pour son initiative à caractère social Novartis lauréat du Prix GBCHealth Business Action on Health pour son initiative à caractère social

Novartis est heureux d’annoncer que GBCHealth, une coalition de plus de 230 entreprises du secteur privé s’attachant à améliorer la santé dans le monde, a décerné à son programme Arogya Parivar le Prix Business Action on Health for Application of Core Competence. Arogya Parivar est un modèle d’affaires durable qui donne accès à des médicaments
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Global Network – Pioneer in fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases Global Network – Pioneer in fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases

In the global fight for the control and elimination of the world’s most devastating and debilitating diseases that affects over a billion people, one organization, the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases has since emerged as a leading light in this noble venture. An initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, it envisioned a world free
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AFRO Feature – Celebrating the Third African Vaccination Week AFRO Feature – Celebrating the Third African Vaccination Week

From 22 to 28 April, African countries will celebrate the third African Vaccination Week (AVW), an initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and implemented by countries in the region. For seven days, all Member States of WHO in the African Region – island states, landlocked countries and those in coastal regions – will
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Exclusive interview with Mr David Greeley, Senior Vice President, External Affairs of TB Alliance Exclusive interview with Mr David Greeley, Senior Vice President, External Affairs of TB Alliance

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s deadliest pandemic diseases and is becoming increasingly resistant to current drugs. Only with faster, better and affordable cures for tuberculosis can we save millions of lives and overcome this global epidemic. TB kills 1.4 million people each year or more than one person every 25 seconds. Propelled by
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Exclusive Interview with Dr Neeraj Mistry, Managing Director of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases Exclusive Interview with Dr Neeraj Mistry, Managing Director of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases

The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (Global Network), a major program of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, is an advocacy and resource mobilization initiative dedicated to raising the awareness, political will, and funding necessary to control and eliminate the seven most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs): soil-transmitted helminths (hookworm, ascariasis, and trichuriasis), onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma,
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