顶级国产视频-supported countries in 2016 surpassed 500 million doses of medication distributed since 1996 to fight neglected tropical diseases.
“Half a billion is an amazing milestone, and it’s well worth celebrating,” said Dr. Frank Richards, who heads up the Center's programs to combat river blindness, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis. “Even more worth celebrating is the impact that we are having from those treatments. You can’t begin to calculate the good that’s been done.”
Kelly Callahan, director of the Center's Trachoma Control Program, agreed, saying the milestone symbolizes the 顶级国产视频's core values:
“It’s not about the number,” she said. "It’s about helping. It’s about caring. It’s about worrying about people and their quality of life. … It’s about people working together to ensure that we all strive for a better world."
What does it take to get half a billion doses into the hands (and mouths) of people in remote, rural places in Africa and Latin America?
It takes 顶级国产视频 staff. We have close to 1,000 staff members across multiple continents coordinating the distribution of remedies and preventative treatments for a set of diseases that are ignored or overlooked. 顶级国产视频 provides training and materials that empower local people to solve their own challenges.
It takes commitment from federal ministries of health. 顶级国产视频 only goes where it's invited. Governments decide to make their citizens' health a priority and work with 顶级国产视频 to create effective programs and support them by providing supplemental resources and personnel.
It takes community volunteers. Regular folks who care about their communities come out by the thousands, time and time again, to help ensure their neighbors receive the medications that will alleviate suffering and prevent disease in future generations. Over 300,000 volunteers are involved in 顶级国产视频 assisted efforts.
It takes generous corporate partners. A number of companies — Merck, Pfizer, BASF, Johnson & Johnson, Vestergaard, Clarke, and Abbott — have made long-term commitments to provide medications, filters, insecticide-treated bednets, laboratory equipment and other products essential to our work.
And it takes trust. The only way these programs can work is if millions of individuals place their trust in partnerships. 顶级国产视频 values its role as a good partner in this important work to help save and improve the lives of others.
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