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Eliminating neglected tropical diseases

May 10, 2016

Over a billion of the most vulnerable people in the world are afflicted by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). As Professor Martin Kollmann from CBM International in Nairobi explains, it is more than a matter of health.

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