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Abbreviations APPG.............................. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and NTDs CDD............................... Community drug distributors GAELF............................ Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis LF..................................... Lymphatic filariasis MDG............................... Millennium Development Goals NNN............................... NGDO NTD Network NTD................................ Neglected tropical disease OEPA.............................. Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas PEC.................................. Primary eye care workers SAFE .............................. surgery, antibiotics, face-washing and environmental hygiene STH................................. Soil-transmitted helminths WHA.............................. World Health Assembly WHO.............................. World Health Organization iv
Acknowledgements We would like to give our thanks to the UK Coalition against Neglected Tropical Diseases (UKCNTD), chaired by Dr Wendy Harrison, Managing Director, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College London, for producing this report and for the contributions made by the UKCNTD to this report for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases. We would like to thank GlaxoSmithKline, which has generously funded the printing of this report. We greatly appreciate the work and support of the Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, the Secretary of State at the Department for International Development. Distinguished speakers we have been privileged to hear are listed at the back of the Report. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases is also most grateful for financial support from: • UK Coalition against NTD members (Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases - Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Carter Centre UK, Developing World Health Footwork, ILEP, Lepra, Malaria Consortium, ORBIS, Partnership for Child Development (PCD) - Imperial College London, Sabin Foundation Europe, Schistosomosiasis Control Initiative - Imperial College London, Sightsavers, The Global Atlas of Helminth Infections, The Fred Hollows Foundation, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, The London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, WaterAid) • Sabin Foundation Europe • Medicines for Malaria Venture • Malaria Consortium • Malaria No More • Dr Janet Lefroy and Mr Jeremy Lefroy MP v
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Page 3 and 4: Contents Chairman’s Foreword ii A
Page 5: House Of Commons The All-Party Parl
Page 9 and 10: Recommendations To support NTD ende
Page 11 and 12: Credit: Kate Holt/Sightsavers. In K
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Page 15 and 16: Credit: Anna Phillips/SCI. Drawing
Page 17 and 18: A defining moment in the fight agai
Page 19 and 20: Fact sheets on common NTDs NTD Symp
Page 21 and 22: NTD Symptoms / Disability caused Nu
Page 23: Acknowledgements The pharmaceutical

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