neglected disease

collocation in English

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neglected
adjective
uk
/nɪˈɡlek.tɪd/
us
/nɪˈɡlek.tɪd/
not receiving enough care ...
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disease
noun
uk
/dɪˈziːz/
us
/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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She believes that historians haveneglecteddiseaseas a formative in-uence in an early modern period when people were obsessed with health matters.
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Chagas is a potentially fatalneglecteddiseasethat affects between 8 and 13 million people worldwide.
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These public-private partnerships and product-development partnerships have been established to address challenges in pharmaceutical industry, especially related toneglecteddiseaseresearch.
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One of the greatest challenges to global public health is securing treatments for neglected diseases and those endemic to poor nations.
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This section addresses the issues of bureaucratic administration, sequential innovation, neglected diseases, excessive marketing, and parallel importation.
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One of these major sources of funding has come from foundations, which have increasingly become more committed toneglecteddiseasedrug discovery in the 21st century.
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Leveraging biotech's drug discovery expertise for neglected diseases.
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These include preventive medicines such as vaccines and microbicides, as well as treatments for otherwise neglected diseases.
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It does not use or define the term neglected though most of the diseases listed are often included on lists of neglected diseases.
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The focus is on proposed new ideas aimed at accelerating the development of drugs and other health technologies for neglected diseases.
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Despite underfunding, many neglected diseases are cost-effective to treat and prevent.
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They are known for advocating in favor of low-cost legislative interventions which incentivize the research, development and distribution of pharmaceutical products targeting rare and neglected diseases.
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