Neglected Tropical Diseases News

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10/1/2025

Despite Progress, Funding Cuts Threaten to Reverse Africa’s Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases

9/30/2025

How listening to researchers, healthcare workers, and community members can improve the design of studies testing medical innovations for NTD

9/22/2025

Consultation on cross-border memorandum of understanding for neglected tropical disease elimination

9/21/2025

How Wolbachia bacteria could help us tackle some of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases

9/9/2025

PAHO, Brazil’s Ministry of Health convene experts to align strategies for the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem

9/4/2025

Clinical trial to test potential new cure for river blindness

8/28/2025

Innovative financing can beat Africa’s neglected tropical diseases

8/8/2025

From words to action: the development of the Neglected Tropical Disease Inclusion Score Card

8/7/2025

Guyana’s Fight Against Lymphatic Filariasis: A Story of Hope, Leadership, and Community

7/21/2025

Breaking the cycle of neglected diseases

7/19/2025

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030

7/11/2025

Burundi eliminates trachoma as a public health problem

7/10/2025

Global insights can accelerate India’s journey towards the elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem

7/8/2025

Strengthening health systems through neglected tropical disease (NTD) integration: country experiences and innovative approaches

7/1/2025

Global trends, health inequalities, and projections in the burden of neglected tropical diseases and malaria from 1990 to 2021

6/23/2025

Toward the elimination of lymphatic filariasis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: progress, perspectives, and strategic directions

6/19/2025

The case for vaccine development in the strategy to eradicate river blindness (onchocerciasis) from Africa

6/3/2025

$200 Billion Pledge: Gates Foundation to Wind Down with Focus on Africa

5/8/2025

Gates Foundation Will Double Spending Over Next 20 Years to Accelerate Progress on Saving and Improving Lives

3/28/2025

State Department formally notifies Congress it is effectively dissolving USAID

3/10/2025

United States announces shutdown of 83 percent of USAID programmes

3/5/2025

Withdrawal of the United States from the WHO

2/27/2025

USAID Workers Pay Final Visit to Agency to Clear Out Belongings Under Federal Guard

1/30/2025

WHO verifies Niger as the first country in the African Region to eliminate onchocerciasis

1/29/2025

Guinea eliminates human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem

1/24/2025

U.S. withdrawal from WHO could bring tragedy at home and abroad

1/21/2025

WHO comments on United States’ announcement of intent to withdraw

1/20/2025

Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization

10/1/2024

Brazil eliminates lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem

6/20/2024

Chad eliminates human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem

6/13/2024

Gavi to boost access to life-saving human rabies vaccines in over 50 countries: Gavi, WHO and UAR

5/22/2024

New research flags the urgent need for research and evidence on the impact of climate change on neglected tropical diseases and malaria

5/15/2024

WHO prequalifies new dengue vaccine

1/28/2024

Joint Message for World Leprosy Day 2024

12/15/2025

WHO officially recognizes noma as a neglected tropical disease

11/23/2024

Working Together Towards Sustainable Pesticide Management: Key Outcomes from JMPM 2023

7/23/2024

Iraq eliminates trachoma as a public health problem

6/14/2023

WHO’s Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme Partners’ Meeting ends with stirring call for worldwide action

6/6/2023

Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme Partners’ Meeting, 12–13 June 2023

5/16/2023

WHO congratulates Benin and Mali for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem

1/30/2023

More countries eliminate neglected tropical diseases but investments key to sustain progress

3/30/2022

World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day: WHO calls for equitable health services for all