As a group, PDPs like OneWorld Health, Medicines for Malaria Venture, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, and the Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics target diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, Chagas, HIV and AIDS, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, a group of parasitic infections caused by worms.

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