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The program has twice received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundad--$5.2 million in 1999 and $4.4 million in 2006. The first grant allowed the program to grow from a community-based public health research initiative to a national intervention for the elimination of a prominent, but often neglected disease. The second grant enables us to continue this scaled-up intervention, while conducting operational research that puts the Haiti Program at forefront of global efforts to develop effective LF-elimination methods.
Beyond the generosity of the Gates foundation, $2.2 million has been raised for the program from private foundations including $1.2 via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In addition, a donor has provided funding to begin an initiative to work with parish twinning programs in the U.S. and Haiti. More than 300 parishes in Haiti are partnered with a parish in the U.S. It is hoped that twinned parishes will incorporate the crucial strategies for LF elimination into their existing programs to augment the current efforts. Through this ecumenical initiative, Notre Dame and its partners hope to use religious infrastructure to deliver a major public health intervention.
While we have been fortunate to receive support from many organizations and private donors, we have raised less than half of the $20 million required to eliminate lymphatic filariasis from Haiti. In order for our current efforts in the most affected areas to be effective, we must sustain treatment of the hyperendemic zones and expand to at least 80% of the entire at-risk population. To do this will require continued support, but in the end can be successful.
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