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Religious Leaders Should Come Together To Ensure Access To NTD Medicines For World's Poorest
Most of the world's neglected tropical diseases occur among populations that adhere to Islam, Catholicism, or Hinduism, an observation that "affords an opportunity to establish a unique interfaith dialogue among religious leaders" leading to global action, Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, and Serap Aksoy, a professor at the Yale School of Public Health, write in a PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) editorial. They provide statistics of NTD infections among different populations living in countries dominated by specific religious affiliations and write, "These high prevalence NTDs not only have a devastating health impact on these populations, but ... they also represent major reasons why such populations cannot escape poverty."
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