Oviedo (EFE).- The Medicines for Neglected Diseases Initiative, a non-profit research organization that develops new treatments for patients from poor and vulnerable communities, has been awarded this Thursday with the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation.
Created in 2003, the organization (DNDi) was founded by Doctors Without Borders, the World Health Organization and five other institutions and since its inception has provided a dozen affordable and easy-to-administer treatments for six Serious diseases, especially prevalent in tropical countries.
This network, made up of more than two hundred partners in more than forty countries, focuses on pathologies such as river blindness or filariasis, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis, hepatitis C, malaria , cryptococcal meningitis, dengue, HIV, mycetoma and, in recent years, COVID-19.