WHO Roadmap
for Neglected Tropical Diseases
Department of Control of Neglected Tropical DiseasesWorld Health Organization, Geneva
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases Launch of the Neglected Tropical Diseases Report
London, 6th November 2012
A proxy for poverty and disadvantage
Affect populations with low visibility and little political voice
Do not travel widely
Cause stigma and discrimination, especially of girls and women
Have an important impact on morbidity and mortality
Are relatively neglected by research
Can be controlled, prevented and possibly eliminated using effective and feasible solutions
Ethical duty
Neglected Tropical Diseases common features
WHO report on neglected tropical diseases (2010)
• The report focuses on 17 neglected tropical diseases and disease groups. There are 149 countries and territories where neglected tropical diseases are endemic, at least 100 of which are endemic for 2 or more of these diseases, and 30 countries that are endemic for 6 or more
• WHO recommends five public-health strategies for the prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases:
1. expansion of preventive chemotherapy;2. intensified case-detection and case
management;
3. improved vector control;4. appropriate veterinary public health measures;5. provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene.
All of these examples, all of my personal experiences over the past five years, bring me to one overarching conclusion. Universal health coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer.
Universal coverage is relevant to every person on this planet. It is a powerful equalizer that abolishes distinctions between the rich and the poor, the privileged and the marginalized, the young and the old, ethnic groups, and women and men.
Universal health coverage is the best way to cement the gains made during the previous decade. It is the ultimate expression of fairness. This is the anchor for the work of WHO as we move forward.
Best days for public health are ahead of us, says WHO Director-General Dr Margaret ChanDirector-General of the World Health OrganizationAddress to the Sixty-fifth World Health AssemblyGeneva, Switzerland 21 May 2012
A roadmap for implementation, January 2012
“This roadmap represents the next step forward in relieving and, in many cases, finally ending
the vast misery caused by these ancient diseases of poverty.
…Working together in an innovative, flexible and
cost-effective way,
Private sector, Public sector, Partners …
outside any formally structured partnership.”
Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization
11 eradication and elimination targets7 intensified control targets
By 2015 and 2020
The NTD Roadmap was presented at a meeting on "Uniting to combat neglected tropical diseases: ending the neglect and reaching 2020 goals" with representatives of several Member States, Dr Margaret Chan, Mr Bill Gates and the CEOs of 9 pharmaceutical companies. London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases was endorsed during the meeting.
The key role of drug donations and Private sector commitment
Best days for public health are ahead of us, says WHO Director-General Dr Margaret ChanDirector-General of the World Health OrganizationAddress to the Sixty-fifth World Health AssemblyGeneva, Switzerland 21 May 2012
Partner and Country commitments
Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, and Professor Thérèse N’Dri-Yoman, President of the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly, at a technical briefing
To highlight the commitment of countries, the president of the WHA requested WHO DG to present a WHO resolution on all NTDs to be adopted at the next WHA in May 2013, with the support of numerous Member States
Inspired by the World Health Organization’s 2020 Roadmap on NTDs, we believe there is atremendous opportunity to control or eliminate at least 10 of these devastating diseases bythe end of the decade.
The World Health Organization acknowledges the important contributionof the United Kingdom in Neglected Tropical Disease control/elimination
Home base for some of the most generous Drug Donating companies Home base for multiple implementing agencies (UK Coalition against NTDs) without whom the donated drugs would not make it to the targeted populations DFID and USAID are the two major NTD Donor Countries
Thank you
