Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021 to 2030

During the virtual session of the seventy-third World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed a new road map for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) for 2021 to 2030, which set out global targets and actions to align and re-focus the work of countries, partners and stakeholders during the next decade, including cross-cutting targets aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.

The overarching 2030 global targets are to:

• reduce by 90% the number of people requiring treatment for NTDs 
• eliminate at least one NTD in 100 countries 
• eradicate two diseases, dracunculiasis and yaws 
• reduce by 75% the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) related to NTDs

Source: TRAVAX, 16 November 2020