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<p>Each year snakebites kill more than 80,000 people and at least 450,000 people are
thought to suffer life-changing injuries such as loss of limbs and permanent disability.</p><p>There
are major technical challenges for the production and distribution of anti-venoms
in low- and middle-income countries, including lack of quality anti-venoms, high cost
of anti-venoms, poor regulation, poor distribution policies and marketing of inappropriate
or poor-quality anti-venoms.</p><p>DFID recently launched a £9 million Research programme
to develop new snakebite treatments which will be effective against multiple species,
affordable, stable in tropical temperatures and easy to use in local communities,
to overcome some of the distribution challenges.</p>
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