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Donors Must Continue Funding R&D To Bring New Global Health Technologies To Patients
In this post in the Hill's "Congress Blog," Kaitlin Christenson, the coalition director of the Global Health Technologies Coalition; Jim Connolly, president and CEO of Aeras; and Mel Spigelman, president and CEO of the TB Alliance, respond to a recently released G-FINDER report that shows "overall global investment in the research and development (R&D) of [new global health technologies] has declined for the first time since 2007, when the tracking of such funding began," writing, "This decline is especially troubling given that there are more than 100 products in [the Product Development Partnerships' (PDPs)] pipelines."
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