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Eisai Signs the Public-Private Partnership “Kigali Declaration” for Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases

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TOKYO, Jun 24, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that Eisai has signed the Kigali Declaration announced at the Kigali Summit on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) on June 23, 2022 in Kigali, the capital of the Republic of Rwanda, and expressed Eisai's continued support for the elimination of NTDs towards the achievement of a road map for NTDs 2021-2030 launched by the World Health Organization (WHO). Based on the human health care (hhc) philosophy, Eisai has positioned the elimination of NTDs as an important area of focus and aims to achieve social good in the form of reducing health disparities (please click here to watch the message video).Also, Eisai's CEO Haruo Naito has been appointed as one of the '100 Global Leaders Committed to Eliminating NTDs'. NTDs include 20 diseases that the WHO identifies as tropical diseases which human race must overcome. In 2012, the pharmaceutical companies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the WHO, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), the World Bank, and governments of NTD-endemic countries pledged their support ...

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Eisai Announces Results and Continued Support of Initiatives for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases

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TOKYO, Jan 28, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that its CEO Haruo Naito participated in the online event entitled "100% COMMITTED to End NTDs" celebrating the 10th anniversary of the London Declaration, an international public-private partnership to eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), on January 27, 2022. CEO Naito represented pharmaceutical companies and highlighted the achievements of NTDs elimination activities by the industry and successes achieved by multi-sectoral partnerships. He also expressed Eisai's continued support for the elimination of NTDs towards the achievement of NTD road map 2021-2030 launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) last year. The 10th anniversary event aimed to recognize a decade of progress since the London Declaration, to confirm the strong commitment of stakeholders to continue the efforts for NTDs, and to strengthen endorsements from stakeholders to the Kigali Declaration on NTDs, the successor of the London Declaration which will be unveiled at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled for June 2022 in Kigali, the capital of the Republic of Rwanda. Tremendous achievemen...