Wave of Celebrity Support Boosts Global Effort to Eliminate Seven Diseases by 2020

Wave of Celebrity Support Boosts Global Effort to Eliminate Seven Diseases by 2020 PR Newswire WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012 - END7 campaign fights treatable Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that infect more than 1 billion people WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrities from around the world called on their fans and followers to join the END7 campaign, a global effort to eliminate seven neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2020. END7 is a campaign of the Sabin Vaccine Institute. Music, entertainment and fashion stars, including Katy Perry, Slash, Ewan McGregor, Stella McCartney, Tom Felton, Alyssa Milano, Danny DeVito, Amos Lee, Norah Jones, MC Hammer, Aaron Neville, The Kooks, Rosanne Cash and many others reached out to their Twitter and Facebook fans to help END7 raise awareness about these devastating diseases of poverty that infect one in six people worldwide, including 500 million children. "Join us in ending 7 diseases by 2020! Follow @END_7 today and find out how to make it all possible!" tweeted pop singer Katy Perry (@katyperry) to her 24 million followers. "My fans mean the world to me. Today you meant the world to millions of kids suffering with NTDs," tweeted British actor and a star of the "Harry Potter" movie franchise, Tom Felton (@tomfelton). "Thousands of you have joined me to help #END7 preventable diseases today. You inspire me!" Felton also posted.