We coordinate and support policies and strategies to enhance global access to interventions for the prevention, control, elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases, including some zoonotic diseases.
26 March 2024. We would like to honor her remarkable legacy by continuing the journey she began – combating neglected tropical diseases and crafting a future where every voice is heard and every potential unleashed!
The department coordinates and supports policies and strategies to enhance global access to interventions for the prevention, control, elimination and eradication of NTDs.
Across the whole spectrum of essential health services, NTD interventions have been found to be among the most frequently and most severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases (STAG-NTD) is the principal advisory group to the WHO for the control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
The objectives of the meeting were:
to review the data on monitoring the efficacy of anthelminthics currently used in large-scale deworming programmes...
The 36th meeting of the International Task
Force for Disease Eradication (ITFDE)1
was convened in a hybrid (virtual and
in-person) format at the Carter...
In order to monitor the progress accomplished towards dracunculiasis eradication, district-wise surveillance indicators, a line list of cases and a line...