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The department coordinates and supports policies and strategies to enhance global access to interventions for the prevention, control, elimination and eradication of NTDs.
COVID-19 and NTDs
Across the whole spectrum of essential health services, NTD interventions have been found to be among the most frequently and most severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases (STAG-NTD) is the principal advisory group to the WHO for the control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
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All →In 2025, the WHO Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme marks 20 years of action and data. Since its establishment in 2005, a concerted effort...
National onchocerciasis elimination committees (NOECs) play a vital role in national neglected tropical disease (NTD) programmes. The purpose of this...
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