SCI pre-ICOPA meeting in London August 2nd-4thSCI took the opportunity of the ICOPA meeting to bring together all the National Coordinators for a round up meeting on Wednesday August 2nd and Thursday August 3rd. Each country made a presentation to the group so that everyone was up to date with country progress towards the SCI objectives, and difficulties and problems were discussed openly. The future of SCI was discussed, and as usual funding issues and budgets were presented. SCI is in its final year of the current Bill and Melinda Gates funding, and so additional funding will be required if SCI is to continue its work beyond 2007. The SCI has joined a new network called the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Disease Control (GNNTDC), based at the Sabin Institute in Washington DC, and the Network partners† are trying to identify potential donors for control activities. The target is to raise 1 billion dollars for a five year treatment campaign against all NTD’s. On August 3rd in the afternoon and on August 4th an open meeting was held which included the following presentations:
†The GNNTDC Partners are:
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