'Gates' Open for Big Pharma Cooperation to Combat NTDs

LONDON – For once "unprecedented" was the mot juste as the CEOs of nine pharma and biotech companies took to the stage with government health and overseas aid ministers, and the heads of agencies including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, to back the London Declaration, pledging to control or eliminate 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2020.