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World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day: Unite. Act.

World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day: Unite. Act. Eliminate

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World NTD Day highlights the global effort to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases affecting the world's poorest populations.

Highlights:
  • World NTD Day, observed on 30 January, aims to raise awareness and mobilize action against Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • NTDs disproportionately affect marginalized communities, perpetuating cycles of poverty and inequality
  • Global initiatives like the WHO NTD Roadmap 2021-2030 aim to control, eliminate, and eradicate these diseases by 2030
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) represent a diverse collection of diseases that mainly affect people living in poverty. Lack of attention from global health initiatives allows these diseases to create untold destruction within populations in poor regions (1 Trusted Source
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World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day announced its establishment as an official global observance on 30 January through the World Health Assembly decision WHA74(18) in 2021. Global stakeholders use World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day to promote awareness and acceleration of NTD elimination and control strategies.


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Significance of World NTD Day

World NTD Day is an essential date that serves as a global platform that gathers governments and organizations with individuals who work together to combat these diseases. World NTD Day marks three critical stages in global NTD control efforts starting with the 2012 launch of the first NTD road map and continuing through the London Declaration on NTDs in 2013 and the current road map's release in January 2021. The health milestones illustrate the recent achievements of the medical campaign and the continuing need to reach health equity for every individual.

The upcoming World NTD Day 2025 theme is "Unite. Act. Eliminate." Act. Fundamental collaboration represents the essential process to tackle these diseases. The world will get closer to eliminating these diseases and improving population health with collaborative partner support and action on proveditní strategies and investments in long-lasting solutions.


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Devastating Impact of NTDs

More than 1.7 billion people throughout the world become victims of neglected tropical diseases which mainly strike tropical and subtropical geographic areas. The absence of healthcare alongside limited clean water and poor sanitation disproportionately affects poor communities that develop dengue, leprosy, trachoma, and schistosomiasis. NTDs produce disastrous effects that exceed healthcare problems by creating perpetual cycles of economic deprivation, stigmatization and social isolation among those affected.

A person's work and family support capabilities become impaired when they suffer from diseases that include lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis (river blindness). Soil-transmitted helminths create developmental and intellectual delays in children which reduces their capacity to learn and decreases their prospects for sustained success. NTDs create more than health challenges because they act as substantial obstacles that prevent both social and economic development.


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Global Efforts to Combat NTDs

The worldwide network focused on addressing NTDs has demonstrated significant progress during this recent period. The London Declaration on NTDs creates a powerful collaboration by linking governments with pharmaceutical firms and non-governmental organizations that provide funding and medicines alongside the implementation of major treatment initiatives. At present millions of individuals began life-saving treatments while multiple countries achieved elimination outcomes with specific NTDs.

The WHO NTD Roadmap 2021-2030 outlines ambitious targets to control, eliminate, and eradicate NTDs by the end of the decade. Preventive chemotherapy availability expansion while enhancing regional health system stability and upgrading sanitation and water resources infrastructure represent the basis of these strategies. Achieving sustainable progress requires meaningful community engagement while promoting multisectoral collaboration according to the guidance provided by the roadmap.


How You Can Get Involved

On World NTD Day, everyone should actively join forces with global NTD initiatives. Here are some ways you can make a difference:
  1. Raise Awareness
  2. Support NTD Programs
  3. Advocate for Change
  4. Educate Yourself and Others

Call to Action: Unite. Act. Eliminate.

Current global NTD progress reveals the potential achieved by collaborative community action, even though their elimination remains an ongoing challenge. On World NTD Day we recognize that health represents an essential right mankind possesses to live without preventable diseases that science can treat.

Joining forces with proven action plans along with sustainable investments enables us to finish NTDs and establish a wholesome society of equal opportunity. On World NTD Day let us recommit to supporting this imperative cause because no person should be without essential health services.

Reference:
  1. World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day - (https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-ntd-day)

Source-Medindia


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