Promoting effective interventions for neglected health conditions in developing countries

The United Nations' millennium development project has set global priorities for the mobilization and allocation of resources to the developing world until 2015. However, many health conditions are currently excluded from this global marshal plan and may remain so for the next decade because they do not satisfy the conventional criteria for high priority status. This paper presents an example of how indigenous private-public partnerships can play an effective role in stimulating national initiatives for health interventions for neglected but significant conditions where government capacity or external donor support is limited or lacking.