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The Problem
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of parasitic and bacterial infectious diseases that affect more than1.5 billion of the world’s most impoverished people, including 836 million children.
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Intestinal Worms:
1.5BRequire Treatment
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Lymphatic Filariasis:
856MRequire Treatment
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River Blindness:
198MRequire Treatment
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Schistosomiasis:
206MRequire Treatment
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Trachoma:
158MRequire Treatment
Our Vision
To ensure people at risk of neglected tropical diseases can live healthy and prosperous lives.
Our Impact
97M People Treated in 2017
500M Number of Treatments from 2012-2017
$933M Value of Treatments from 2012-2017
1.1M Health Workers Trained from 2012-2017
11,584 Surgeries Performed from 2012-2017
Where We Work
News & Updates
New Book With Foreword by Bill Gates Tells Remarkable Story of Progress Toward Ending Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)—One Step, One Scientist, and One Worm at a Time
Turned-in eyelashes that scratch the cornea, relentless itching due to millions of worms in the skin, blindness, bloody urine, enlarged scrotums, extremely swollen legs and feet… These are but a few examples of the devastating impact neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have on people. One and a half billion people—almost 20% of the world’s population—need treatment…
‘FIRST OF ITS KIND’ CHARITY ADVENT CALENDAR LAUNCHED
Brand new for 2018, Advent of Change is the revolutionary charity advent calendar, inviting customers to give back as they count down to Christmas this year. This social enterprise, which was born less than nine months ago, has already caught the attention of John Lewis & Partners, who will be stocking the calendar in stores…
Listening Tour: Naming Neglected Tropical Diseases
August 23rd, 2018 The diseases that we now refer to as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) can be pretty hard to pronounce. However, they haven’t always been lumped together as neglected tropical diseases. On the latest episode of Listening Tour, we hear a story from Alan Fenwick, founder of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, on why and…
PARTNERING TO END NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES IN RWANDA
May 18th, 2018 In 2007, the Legatum Foundation, one of the founding investors in the END Fund, first invested in a pilot program for NTDs in Rwanda. Between 2008-2017, almost 52 million generously donated treatments were delivered valued at over $2.7 million. This treatment led to a 30% decrease in the prevalence of intestinal worms…