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Nature 424, 10-11 (3 July 2003) | doi:10.1038/424010a
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Tropical diseases: Raiding the medicine cabinet
Declan Butler1
Abstract
Many candidate drugs to fight diseases in the developing world have been shelved before approval — until now. Enter a medical charity that made its name by bringing hope to the world's disaster zones. Declan Butler reports.
When James Orbinski, then president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), received the 1999 Nobel Prize for Peace on behalf of the charity, his acceptance speech amounted to a call to arms. "More than 90% of all death and suffering from infectious diseases occurs in the developing world," Orbinski told the assembled great and good.
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