Global Health Progress

Around $2.5 billion was spent globally in 2007 on research and developing drugs for tropical diseases endemic in developing countries, with HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria accounting for 80 percent of the amount, a report says.

In an article published in PLoS Medicine, researchers from The George Institute in Australia wrote that many other tropical illnesses that were killing millions of people in developing countries were significantly underfunded.

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