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We thought we would have been a lot further with Yaws, and that is basically because we don't have the medicines donated as we do with other diseases.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Cutaneous leishmaniases doesn't kill, but it disfigures, so here we could do a lot more and the main problem here is also access to medicines -- access to affordable medicines.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
For the moment, we're only tackling two: through blood transfusion and vector transmission, there are still gaps.
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There's also a group of diseases that you can actually treat preventatively.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
So for diseases like elephantiasis, Guinea worm disease, schistosomiasis, the intestinal worms and trachoma, you can regularly treat people with safe, single dose drugs and then they never actually build up a worm load that could cause them problems.
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What has contributed enormously to that progress was the help we have received from the private sector.
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There's been a lot of progress with visceral leishmaniases, which is a different disease, but which kills.
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So here we could do a lot more and the main problem here is also access to medicines -- access to affordable medicines.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Dengue is one of the diseases we haven't been so successful in tackling or curbing, we don't have easy tools to curb the spread of Dengue.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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