1. World Health Organization
22 April, 2018
Besancon, 28 March 2014
On track for 2020?
Towards the WHO roadmap's targets for neglected tropical diseases
Dr Bernadette Abela-Ridder
Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
World Health Organization, Geneva

2. Common features of Neglected Tropical Diseases
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
Common features
Are relatively neglected by research
Can be controlled, prevented and possibly eliminated using effective and feasible solutions
Ethical duty

3. 17 Neglected Tropical Diseases
World Health Organization
22 April, 2018
17 Neglected Tropical Diseases
Innovative & intensified case management
Veterinary management
Preventive chemotherapy
Integrated vector management
Water and environmental sanitation
Behavioural change education
Helminth Infections
Soil-transmitted helminth infections
Ascariasis-Trichuriasis-Hookworm
Lymphatic filariasis
Onchocerciasis
Schistosomiasis
Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease)
Cysticercosis
Echinococcosis
Foodborne trematodes infections
Protozoan Infections
Leishmaniasis
Human African trypanosomiasis
Chagas disease
Bacterial Infections
Leprosy
Trachoma
Buruli ulcer
Endemic treponematoses
Viral Infections
Dengue
Rabies 3

4. Intensified control targets
World Health Organization
22 April, 2018
Intensified control targets
Intensified control
Targets and milestones by 2015
Targets and milestones by
2020
Echinococcosis/ Hydatidosis
Pilot projects in selected countries
Validated strategy available and interventions scaled up in selected countries
Note:
Purpose of the roadmap:
To provide guidance and technical insight to policy makers and programme managers in endemic countries
To encourage the community of partners, including donors, pharmaceutical companies, agencies, nongovernmental organizations, philanthropists and universities, to maintain and expand their commitments to overcoming neglected tropical diseases
How it was developed:
Goals for elimination and eradication were set in line with previous World Health Assembly and Regional Committee resolutions as summarized in the first NTD report (October 2010)
Targets and milestones for elimination were established in consultation with Member States, WHO regional and country offices, national programme managers and various partners
The roadmap was discussed by the WHO STAG-NTD in April 2011 and finalized thereafter

5. Working group under WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group (STAG)-NTD Echinococcosis
Complete control manual (Phil Craig)
Systematic review of evidence for early case detection and management (to present at STAG 2015?)
Generic SOP for diagnosis and treatment in low resource settings (September2014?)
Assemble the investment case for echinococcosis
Train and equip identified peripheral health care centres for early detection and management
Select countries: (Mongolia, ….)
initiate baseline mapping, design country adapted control and case management strategy and implement
> provide as deliverables of IWGE to STAG-NTD

6. You are the experts You build the network
How do we get from where we are, despite resource constraints to where we want to go
Provide countries with strategy for intensified control that is fit for purpose and customizable in selected countries by 2020

7. World Health Day
7 April 2014