The Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty

WHO

Each year infectious diseases kill 3.5 million people – mostly the poor and young children who live in low and middle income countries. Research can change this and bring health to many more people. TDR has brought people and institutions together to identify and advocate for the research priorities that will bring new and innovative approaches and products.

The result is Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty , which provides a new cross-disciplinary approach and analysis. It is essential reading for policy-makers, funders and research leaders.

Low and middle income countries would benefit from the establishment of a new indicator that uses the impact of disease as a measurement of social and economic development. That is one of numerous recommendations for a more multidisciplinary approach coming from a new report released today at a European Commission meeting. The Global Report on Research for Infectious Diseases of Poverty, published by TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, offers new ways of improving public health in low and middle income countries through research.

Overview

The world’s poor are still not reaping the full benefits of research outcomes, despite an increasing global commitment to health research. While research funding to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB has increased, other infectious diseases associated with poverty, such as Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, human African trypanosomiasis and Buruli ulcer, have not had the same attention. This key fact is at the heart of this report, which began after TDR initiated a concerted Stewardship effort to investigate and support more equitable approaches to funding and support for research.

Publication details

Number of pages: 168
Publication date: 2012
Languages: English
ISBN: 9789241564489

Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty (184 page .PDF report)

Watch a live talk about the Global Report by Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization’s Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research, who is a plenary speaker at the European Commission's Innovation in Healthcare without borders in Brussels. This is live on Tuesday, 17 April, at 15:15. If you miss it, the talk will be archived on the site.

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