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Geneva Global Inc Awards $8.9 Million Grant to Global Network for Neglected Tropical Disease Control
Mar. 08, 2007
Geneva Global, Inc. announced today that it has brokered an $8.9 million grant to the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Disease Control (GNNTDC) to fund a campaign to control and eliminate seven neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in two Central African countries, Rwanda and Burundi.
The grant, the largest single grant from a Geneva Global client, will be used to develop a “rapid-impact” treatment program to be rolled out in both countries during the summer of 2007. NTDs are disfiguring and life-threatening parasitic and bacterial infections that afflict and stigmatize more than
1 billion people living in the most impoverished areas of the developing world.