'Neglected Infections Of Poverty' In United States Disable Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Annually Jun 26, 2008
"The fact that these neglected infections of poverty represent some of the greatest health disparities in the United States, but they remain at the bottom of the public health agenda, is a national disgrace," says Peter J. Hotez , MD, PhD, author of the analysis and President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Executive Director of Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of the Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine department at George... (Science Daily)
Parasitic diseases plague poor in urban areas, specialist says Jun 25, 2008
And diseases associated with the developing world, such as dengue fever and Chagas disease, may become a bigger problem for the United States as the climate changes, said Dr. Peter Hotez of George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington. "The message is a little tough because they are not killer diseases - they impact on child development, intellectual development, hearing, and sometimes even heart disease," Hotez said in a telephone interview. (Boston Globe)
Analysis: U.S. poor are vulnerable to 'neglected' diseases Jun 24, 2008
The diseases, caused by chronic viral, bacterial and parasitic infections, disproportionately strike women and children and are largely overlooked by doctors, says author Peter Hotez of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, part of Sabin Vaccine Institute. Hotez says the diseases go untreated in hundreds of thousands of poor people who live mainly in inner cities, the Mississippi Delta, Appalachia and the Mexican borderlands. (USA Today)
Health Experts Call on Global Leaders to Ensure Access to Life-Saving Pneumococcal Vaccines Jun 10, 2008
"By bringing NGOs, scientists, industry and health and financial decision makers at the country level together to make pneumococcal disease prevention a priority, our goal is to help save millions of lives," said Dr. Ciro de Quadros, executive vice president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and co-chairman of PACE. "We encourage all parties involved to make the global commitments necessary to prevent this deadly disease." Kenya is one country represented at the Symposium that is currently working... (Canada Newswire)
Tourists To Caribbean Urged To Pay One Dollar Each To Help Fight Tropical Diseases Of Poverty May 30, 2008
In an editorial in this month's PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the journal's Editor in Chief, Professor Peter Hotez (George Washington University and Sabin Vaccine Institute) proposes that a modest US 1 ... 1, 2008) In an article titled "Poverty and Neglected Diseases in the 'Other' America," Professor Peter Hotez (George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute) says that there is evidence that the. (Science Daily)
Sabin Vaccine Institute Receives $9.2M Gates Foundation Grant to Pursue Sustainable Immunization Financing Mar 31, 2008
Sabin Vaccine Institute Receives $9 ... Sabin Vaccine Institute Receives $9 ... The Sabin Vaccine Institute will field a seven-person team that will collaborate closely with Ministries of Health and Finance, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank and other global immunization partners. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Tropical Disease Experts Call For A 'Global Fund To Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases' Mar 27, 2008
A "Global Fund to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases," say Professor Hotez (Sabin Vaccine Institute and George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA) and colleagues, would "satisfy an urgent need to support NTD control and elimination." ... 1, 2008) In an article titled "Poverty and Neglected Diseases in the 'Other' America," Professor Peter Hotez (George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute) says that there is evidence that the. (Science Daily)
A polio-free world Feb 26, 2008
A small handful of people each year contracted the disease from the Sabin vaccine itself, but there have been none of those since the government changed policy back to the killed-virus vaccine in 2000. For much of the rest of the world, it was a different story. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
Cancer Vaccine Consortium and Cancer Vaccine Collaborative unite under the Cancer Research Institute Jan 29, 2008
New York, New York The Cancer Research Institute (CRI) announced today that it has brought together the Cancer Vaccine Consortium, a program of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, and the Cancer Vaccine Collaborative, a program of the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR), to form the leading initiative on cancer vaccines ... D., medical lead in Immuno-Oncology at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and former president of the Sabin Vaccine Institutes Cancer... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Report: More Poor Americans Infected With Worms Than Thought Dec 27, 2007
Professor Peter Hotez of George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute said roundworms, threadworms and tapeworms are more common than believed and often under-reported because the tropical parasites infect poor children living in inner cities and rural America. Tapeworms, for example, are the leading cause of seizures among U.S. Hispanic children, wrote Hotez, adding that up to 2 percent of America's 35 million Hispanic residents may be infected. (Fox News)
Poor Americans in the United States suffer hidden burden of parasitic and other neglected diseases Dec 26, 2007
In an article entitled Poverty and Neglected Diseases in the Other America, Professor Peter Hotez (George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute) says that there is evidence that the parasitic diseases toxocariasis, cysticercosis and toxoplasmosis as well as other neglected infections are very common in the United States, especially among poor and underrepresented minority populations living in inner cities and poor rural areas ... Professor Peter Hotez Walter G. Ross... (EurekAlert!)
Drug-resistant river blindness spreading Jun 16, 2007
This finding represents a wake-up call that any parasite-control program that relies on a single antimicrobial agent is always at risk of derailment, wrote Dr. Peter J. Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, in an accompanying commentary in The Lancet. Hotez was not linked to the study. (MSNBC -- Health)
What the Verdict Will Mean for Vaccines Jun 13, 2007
"To have hearings, it's unfortunate first of all," says Dr. Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington D.C., whose own daughter is autistic. "We need to do a lot for kids with autism, but focusing on vaccines is really misplaced energy.". (ABC News)
Washington court will hear autism-vaccine suits Jun 11, 2007
Dr. Peter Hotez of the Sabin Vaccine Institute said he is confident his daughter's autism was not caused by any vaccines. "Even if we could turn back the clock and do it all over again, I can honestly say that we would still give Rachel her full complement of pediatric vaccines and our confidence in this is based on what we know about autism," Hotez told reporters in the same briefing. (Scientific American)
Vaccine-autism debate hits court Jun 11, 2007
Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and a biology professor at George Washington University, who has a 14-year-old autistic daughter, said the controversy has distracted from the real problem: finding services for rising numbers of autistic children and ramping up research to find a cure. We are absolutely confident Rachels vaccines have nothing to do with her autism, he said. (Columbia Missourian)
Retired doctor reflects on advances Nov 6, 2006
The new vaccine, Killelea said, was called the Sabin vaccine and is an oral medicine put into a sugar cube. Before that we had we gave the patients shots, he said. (Natchez Democrat, MS)
World Health Organization and Partners Unveil New Coordinated Approach to Treat Millions Suffering from Neglected Tropical Diseases Oct 27, 2006
1 (312) 266 2139; e-mail: ; website: -- The Global Network For Neglected Tropical Diseases Control (GNNTDC) - Senior Program Officer, Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute, 1889 F Street, N.W., Suite 200S, Washington, D.C. 20006, USA. Tel. 1 (202) 842 5025; e-mail: ; website: -- The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool,L3 5QA, United Kingdom. (PR Newswire)
WP: In Brazil, field trials to treat world's poor Oct 12, 2006
"The idea is to partner with public-sector vaccine manufacturers in what we call 'innovative developing countries' -- places like Brazil that may not perform so well economically but have somehow managed to overachieve in their ability to make health products," said Peter Hotez, head of microbiology at George Washington University, who is developing the hookworm vaccine in partnership with Brazilian scientists and the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington. The benefits of the newfound interest... (MSNBC -- International)
RTI to lead $100M effort to fight tropical diseases Sep 27, 2006
Collaborators in the program include the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health, the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative at Imperial College London and the International Trachoma Initiative. RTI officials said in a written statement Tuesday that the project aims to treat 40 million people annually for the next five years. (Raleigh Triangle Business Journal, NC)
CGI Day One Total: 107 Commitments, Over $2 Billion Sep 21, 2006
The Club of Rome Dallah-Albaraka Group JN Medical Corporation Eileen FisherGETF BroadReach Healthcare, LLC L'Altra Napoli AES Corporation International Renewable Energy Teleperformance Group Inc. VidaGas VillageReach Sabin Vaccine Institute Christiana Figueres Urban-Climate y Inc. The Albright Group, LLC The Advocacy Project (AP) Citigroup Foundation International Alert Peres Center for Peace City Year, Inc. Drishtee Foundation ENDEAVOR: High-impact Entrepreneurs. High-impact Change The First... (PR Newswire)
Gates Foundation gives $68 million to fight tropical diseases Sep 15, 2006
8 million to the Sabin Vaccine Institute of Washington, D.C., to develop a vaccine to prevent hookworm; $21 ... Sabin Vaccine Institute. (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
Former cabinet members to help guide Constella May 18, 2006
-- Ciro de Quadros, president and CEO of the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute. de Quadros is recognized as the leading figure in the massive campaign that eradicated poliomyelitis and measles in the Western Hemisphere. (Herald Sun)
Tommy Thompson to head Constella advisory board May 11, 2006
Ciro de Quadros: President and CEO of the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute. Carol Browner: Former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (Raleigh Triangle Business Journal, NC)
