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12 Brown J. World Aff. 247 (2005-2006)
The Biblical Disease and U.S.Vaccine Diplomacy

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa12 and id is 525 raw text is: The Biblical Diseases and U.S. Vaccine Diplomacy PETER J. HOTEZ Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine George Washington University It is a trite saying that one-half the world knows not how the other lives. Who can say what sores might be healed, what hurts solved, were the doings of each half of the world's inhabitants understood and ap- preciated by the other? -Mahatma Gandhi IN 2000, 147 HEADS OF state met at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to adopt a landmark set of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to achieve sustainable development for the world's poorest people.' Together with a set of 18 targets2 the MDGs established a framework for combating poverty, dis- ease, and environmental pollution by creating global partnerships between wealthy nations (especially the G8) and impoverished ones.' MDG 6 specifically targets HIV/AIDS and malaria, among other diseases. Together, HIV/AIDS and malaria account for an estimated 4 million deaths annu- ally, with 3.2 million of those deaths occurring in sub-Saharan Africa.' Because HIV/AIDS in Africa is also often complicated by tuberculosis,5 many public health experts consider HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria together as the big three diseases, causing an estimated 5.6 million deaths annually.6 This article considers the other diseases by focusing on a group of lesser-known tropical infections. New analyses of these neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), also known as the bib- lical diseases because descriptions of them are found in the Bible and other an- cient texts, suggest that they may be just as destructive as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, or malaria. There is a strong rationale for integrating NTD control into U.S. for- P E RJ. HOTEZ M.D., PH.D is a professor and chair of Microbiology, Immunology, andTropical Medicine, as well as a professor of International Affairs at George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute. Copyright © 2006 by the Brown Journal of World Affairs WINTER/SPRING 2006 • VOLUME XII, ISSUE 2

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