Our Vision… A World Without Neglected Diseases

Infectious diseases – bacterial, viral, parasitic protozoan and helminth (worm) – affect more than one billion people in the developing world. An array of devastating maladies not familiar to the developed world, including Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, Dengue fever, bacterial and virally-induced diarrheal diseases, are not adequately addressed by currently available treatments and have a disproportionate impact on the developing world.

Apart from the toll in human suffering, these diseases cripple developing world economies. Many who are handicapped by disease are quickly transformed from net economic contributors into recipients of their countries’ limited social welfare systems.

Developing World Cures is a newly formed non-profit entity working to rapidly establish a premier life sciences organization whose mission is to discover and develop medicines, diagnostic assays and devices to treat and diagnose diseases prevalent in the developing world for which existing treatments are not effective or suitable.