Expanding Treatments to Reach Everyone at Risk

Our Focus
- Neglected tropical diseases
  
  These parasitic and bacterial infections risk blindness, disfigurement and even death for more than 1.65 billion people, including nearly 1 billion children.
  
  Intestinal Worms
  
  Intestinal worms (also known as soil-transmitted helminths) cause malnutrition, anemia and poor physical and mental growth.
  
  River Blindness
  
  River blindness (also known as onchocerciasis) is an eye and skin infection caused by parasitic worms that leads to intense itching and vision loss.
  
  Schistosomiasis
  
  Schistosomiasis (also known as bilharzia or snail fever) is a chronic disease caused by parasitic worms that live in freshwater snails.
  
  Lymphatic Filariasis
  
  Lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis) is a mosquito-borne disease that causes disfigurement and longterm disability.
  
  Trachoma
  
  Trachoma is a bacterial infection of the eye that can cause irreversible blindness. It is the leading cause of blindness due to infection worldwide.
  
  Visceral Leishmaniasis
  
  Visceral leishmaniasis (also known as kala-azar) is a life-threatening disease caused by leishmania parasites, transmitted by female sandflies.
Our Funds
- OUR FUNDS
  
  The END Fund manages a portfolio of programmatic funds to advance our vision to ensure that people at risk of neglected tropical diseases have the opportunity to live healthy and prosperous lives.
  
  FLAGSHIP FUND
  
  To ensure the everyone has access to treatment to live healthy lives.
  
  DEWORMING INNOVATION FUND
  
  To accelerate sustained improvements to the overall health and wellbeing of communities by rewriting the disease elimination playbook for parasitic worm infections.
  
  REACHING THE LAST MILE FUND
  
  To fast track the effort to eliminate river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.
  
  ARISE Fund
  
  To strengthen national and community leadership by co-financing programs with governments and improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
  
  Our Approach
Who We Are
- Who We Are
  
  The END Fund’s staff is dedicated to mobilizing resources and providing programatic assistance to help our partners end neglected tropical diseases.
  
  Employee Spotlights
  
  The Staff
  
  The Board
  
  Partners
  
  Anchor Investors
What We Do
- What We Do
  
  The END Fund mobilizes resources for neglected tropical diseases, and focuses on delivering neglected tropical disease treatments to those in need.
  
  Our Story
  
  Our Impact
  
  Impact Stories
  
  Featured Projects
  
  The Fly Collectors
  
  This documentary film highlights the history of river blindness control and elimination in West Africa.
  
  Ending Neglected Diseases within Climate Resilient Health Systems
  
  Climate change poses the most significant threat to human health in the present day.
  
  Reframing neglect
  
  This series highlights the dire need to end neglected tropical diseases.
Support Our Work
- Support Our Work
  
  We believe that giving should be a joyful and transformative experience that enhances the lives of partners and beneficiaries alike. Support our mission in a number of ways.
  
  Donate
  
  The END Fund is dedicated to fighting the five most prevalent neglected tropical diseases, which affect over 1.65 billion people globally.
  
  Annual reports
  
  Explore our annual reports and learn about the END Fund’s impact.
  
  Invest in the Chairperson Fund
  
  Join END Fund Board Chair Mrs. Tsitsi Masiyiwa as she builds a coalition to end neglected tropical diseases.

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Community health workers walk from house to house in this rural community, distributing medicine as part of the expanded populations MDA in Bungoma, Kenya.

Neglected tropical diseases

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Expanding Treatments to

Reach Everyone at Risk