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NTDs Among America's Poor Populations Must Be Addressed
"[T]he number of Americans living in poverty is at an all-time high, ... with close to 50 million people living below the poverty line," Peter Hotez, founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, writes in an Austin-American Statesman opinion piece, adding, "We desperately need a national dialogue about the unique afflictions of the bottom 50 million, paying particular attention to their neglected tropical diseases [NTDs], which represent important stealth reasons trapping them in a vicious cycle of poverty" (10/26).
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