Abstract
“Fit-for-purpose” diagnostic tests have emerged as a prerequisite to achieving global targets for the prevention, control, elimination, and eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), as highlighted by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new roadmap. There is an urgent need for the development of new tools for those diseases for which no diagnostics currently exist and for improvement of existing diagnostics for the remaining diseases. Yet, efforts to achieve this, and other crosscutting ambitions, are fragmented, and the burden of these 20 debilitating diseases immense. Compounded by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, programmatic interruptions, systemic weaknesses, limited investment, and poor commercial viability undermine global efforts—with a lack of coordination between partners, leading to the duplication and potential waste of scant resources. Recognizing the pivotal role of diagnostic testing and the ambition of WHO, to move forward, we must create an ecosystem that prioritizes country-level action, collaboration, creativity, and commitment to new levels of visibility. Only then can we start to accelerate progress and make new gains that move the world closer to the end of NTDs.
Highlights
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Ahead of the second-ever World Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Day in January 2021, and amid the global Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a new roadmap for the prevention, control, elimination, and eradication of NTDs—a group of 20 diseases affecting more than one billion people worldwide [1]
Political frameworks should prioritize diagnostics for NTDs in line with local disease burdens, and as part of fully funded, national health action plans that include a commitment to seeing the process through
Summary
A“FUit-:foPrl-epausrepnoosteet”hadtitahgenhoeasdtiicngteSsutms mhavryeheamsbeergnechdaansgeadptorAebrestqruaicsti:tPeletoasaecchieecvkianngdgcolorbreaclttiafnregceetsssary: for the prevention, control, elimination, and eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), as highlighted by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new roadmap. Ahead of the second-ever World Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Day in January 2021, and amid the global Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a new roadmap for the prevention, control, elimination, and eradication of NTDs—a group of 20 diseases affecting more than one billion people worldwide [1].
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