The number of people requiring treatment for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) decreased from 2.19 to 1.65 billion between 2010 and 2021 – an impressive 25 percent decline. However, interlinked challenges, including the COVID pandemic and, now, accelerating patterns of climate change are putting this progress at risk. On World NTD Day, we need to recognise these emerging challenges and look to more integrated approaches.
The impressive 25 percent decrease in the number of people requiring treatment for NTDs and the mounting number of countries that have eliminated at least one NTD are testimony to the progress being made to stamp out some of the world’s most deadly and debilitating diseases – which strike mostly at communities in developing countries and at people living in poverty.
