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Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over one billion of the world's poorest people. More than 170,000 people die from NTDs each year, and many more suffer from blindness, disability, disfigurement, cognitive impairment, and stunted growth. Yet NTDs are treatable and preventable, and the annual cost of treatment is incredibly low. In Under the Big Tree, public health leader Ellen Agler and award-winning writer Mojie Crigler tell the moving stories of those struggling with these diseases and the life-saving work that can be--and has been--done to combat these NTDs. They introduce listeners to people from all walks of life--from car washers in Lake Victoria and surgeons on motorbikes to under-resourced local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and Big Pharma scientists--as they chronicle what has been called the largest public health program in the world. On the one hand, the solutions are simple: deliver medication to people who need it and leverage local systems to offer prevention, treatment, and education. On the other hand, solutions are complex: navigating local and national politics, delivering treatment to some of the most remote, vulnerable communities, and coordinating global and local donors, international NGOs, thousands of health workers, and millions of citizens.

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Coleen Marlo is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator who has been nominated for an Audie Award twice, winning in 2011. She has been awarded three Listen-Up Awards from Publishers Weekly, an AudioFile Audiobook of the Year Award in 2011, and was named Audiobook Narrator of the Year for 2010 by Publishers Weekly. She is a member of the prestigious Actors Studio and taught acting for ten years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Marlo is a proud founding member of Deyan Institute of Voice Artistry and Technology. Bill Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft. He and his wife founded The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which funds global health, education and public library projects. Bill Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft. He and his wife founded The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which funds global health, education and public library projects. Ellen Agler is the Chief Executive Officer of the END Fund and the author of Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases. Ellen holds graduate degrees in international health from the Harvard School of Public Health, with a focus on humanitarian affairs, and in development studies from the London School of Economics, with a focus on non-profit management and child rights. She has completed postgraduate studies in conflict resolution at Universidad de Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia.

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