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Winning the war against ancient diseases
Description: The World Health Organization is on track to meet its goals to control, eliminate or eradicate sleeping sickness, Chagas and other ancient illnesses by 2020. At Wednesday's Global Partners' Meeting in Geneva, WHO recognized the goals set forth in the Neglected Tropical Diseases Roadmap and the achievements of the past decade. One billion people were treated in 2015 for neglected tropical diseases, which blind, maim, disfigure and debilitate hundreds of millions of people on the planet. [Source: CNN]
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/health/neglected-tropical-diseases-who/
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Source: CNN
Publish Date: 4/18/2017
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