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Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases: progress and future challenges in sleeping sickness
Date: 18 March, 2015
Chair: Morten Rostrup, Senior consultant at Oslo University Hospital, Norway; International board member of MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières/Leger Uten Grenser); Chair of MSF’s international medical standing committee; Former International President of MSF
José Ramon Franco, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization
Moving towards the elimination of sleeping sickness |
Olaf Valverde, Medical Manager, DNDi, Switzerland
New oral treatments for sleeping sickness in adults and children |
Kårstein Måseide, Senior Adviser, Department for Global Health, Education and Research, NORAD, Norway
The contribution of Norway as a donor engaged in R&D funding for neglected disease |
John-Arne Rottingen, Director, Division of Infectious Disease control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Professor of Health Policy at the Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population, Department of Global Health and Population Harvard University, School of Public Health
New financing and incentive mechanisms to boost R&D for poverty-related diseases: challenges and opportunities ahead |
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