This Group Helps Fight Devastating Diseases The World Ignores

This article is part HuffPost’s Project Zerocampaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to eliminate them. This group is developing drugs to treat diseases that are too often left behind. The Drugs For Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi)develops treatments for neglected tropical diseases ― a group of at least 18 diseases, such as elephantiasis and river blindness, whichaffect more than 1 billion peoplebut are largely unknown and under-resourced since they mainly i...