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The Problem
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of parasitic and bacterial infectious diseases that affect more than 1.7 billion of the world’s most impoverished people, including more than 1 billion children.
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Intestinal Worms:
1.7BRequire Treatment
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Lymphatic Filariasis:
893MRequire Treatment
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River Blindness:
218MRequire Treatment
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Schistosomiasis:
229MRequire Treatment
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Trachoma:
178MRequire Treatment
Our Vision
To ensure people at risk of neglected tropical diseases can live healthy and prosperous lives.
Our Impact
121M People Treated in 2019
922M Number of Treatments from 2012-2019
$1.07B Value of Treatments from 2012-2019
2.7M Health Workers Trained from 2012-2019
30,819 Surgeries Performed from 2012-2019
Where We Work
News & Updates
Small organizations making big impacts in stopping the spread of COVID-19 in the DRC
By Sabrina Pascoe, Associate, Programs and Greg Porter, Senior Associate, Communications United Front Against River Blindness (UFAR) has been treating communities for river blindness in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2006. But now, it has repurposed its sprawling operations to take on the daunting challenge of stopping the spread of COVID-19 in a…
Inventing new ways of working in global health
Kimberly Kamara, Associate Vice President of Programs & Claire Chaumont, Director of Program Evidence, Measurement, and Evaluation Coordination is the cornerstone of success in progress made to end neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The NTD community would not have been as successful as it has in the last decades if it wasn’t for the incredible global…
The END Fund and the Luminos Fund Align Efforts to Fight COVID-19
By James Porter and Maretta Silverman The END Fund works to end the five most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which together affect 1.7 billion people worldwide. A group of parasitic and bacterial diseases, NTDs trap people in the cycle of poverty and amongst children, infection leads to malnutrition, cognitive impairment, stunted growth, and the…
Handwashing stations and education: the NALA Foundation works to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Ethiopia
By Elyse Greenblatt, Associate, Progams The END Fund’s first grant from the COVID-19 Response Fund was to The NALA Foundation. This was our inaugural project with NALA. They have been working in Ethiopia since 2008 with the goal of eliminating diseases of poverty, specifically those related to limited access to clean water and sanitation. NALA’s…