Drug companies join forces to combat deadliest tropical diseases

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Drug companies join forces to combat deadliest tropical diseases

Bill Gates gets pharmaceutical giants to promise drug giveaways and unprecedented pledge to share research on new antidotesThe heads of 13 of the world’s biggest drug companies, brought together by Bill Gates, one of the world’s richest men, have agreed to donate more medicines and, unprecedentedly, to work together to find new ones in a bid to end many neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that kill and maim some of the poorest people on the planet. The 10 diseases targeted affect 1.4 billion people.