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Marginalized People’s Neglected Diseases

When Pope Francis visited the US in September, he highlighted the international community's responsibility to respond to preventable human suffering. It is our hope that his entreaties will mobilize greater support for efforts to address a major plight affecting marginalized people: neglected tropical diseases.

WASHINGTON, DC – When Pope Francis visited the United States in September, he delivered historic addresses to the US Congress and the United Nations General Assembly. Building on the sentiments of his encyclical letter, Laudato Si’, Francis highlighted the international community’s responsibility to respond to human suffering, such as that faced by refugees and those living in extreme poverty, and called for global solidarity in order to overcome social exclusion and inequality.

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