UAE: Here's why you see NTD Day on your phone on January 30
Dubai: Woke up to seeing 'NTD Day' on your phone where the service provider name usually shows? It stands for the World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day and this year marks the second time the day has been observed. Reem Al Hashimi, Minister for State for International Cooperation, announced the observance of the day in 2020 at the Reaching the Last Mile event at Louvre Abu Dhabi. She said at the event that the initiative was designed to galvanise efforts to tackle such conditions, which include river blindness, guinea-worm and trachoma, and predominantly affect the world’s poorest communit...
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