Michael Acott, Baird's CMC, specialist health consultancy, explains how supply chain improvements move medicines more efficiently to poor countries
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the focus of a global effort to control or eliminate them by 2020. Billions of people are at risk of these diseases, which cause deformities, blindness, incapacitation and life long suffering. But, it’s no good manufacturing and donating huge supplies of treatments for devastating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) unless you can get them to where they are most needed, quickly and efficiently.