This is a list of major organizations and programs related to NTDs countermeasures overseas.
(Note: This list is not intended to cover all related organizations and will be updated from time to time. If you would like to add or remove from the list, please contact the secretariat.)
Policymaker
- World Health Organization
- Formulated a roadmap that defines countermeasure policies (current version is until 2020)
- Hosting the Global Partners Meeting
- Management of medicines donated by pharmaceutical companies
- Published countermeasure progress report
Global partnership
- Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Launched as a public-industry-academia-private partnership to put the WHO roadmap into action following the 2012 London Declaration
- Visualize world-class progress in 10 diseases
- Numerical progress by country in Africa for 5 out-of-group medications
- Published annual report on the implementation of the London Declaration
- Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network
- Global Forum for Non-Governmental Organizations, More than 70 Organizations Join
- Hold an annual meeting
- Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center
- Promote operational research to optimize NTDs countermeasure programs
- Organized Coalition for Operational Research on NTDs (COR-NTD) and held annual meetings
Partnership for specific diseases
- Lymphatic filariasis
- Leprosy
- Schistosomiasis
- River blindness
- Chagas disease
- Rabies
Program to support group medication
- Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ESPEN)
- A special project by the World Health Organization Africa Regional Office (AFRO) aims to scale up group medications in Africa
- The END Fund
- Sightsavers
Development and dissemination of pharmaceutical products
- Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)
- Joint development project of medicines for Leishmaniasis, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, filariasis (river blindness and lower filamentous worm disease), and mycetoma among NTDs
- Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
- Develops and disseminates diagnostic agents related to WHO's NTDs roadmap
- The Access and Delivery Partnership
- Launched by the Japanese government and the United Nations Development Program, aiming to spread medicines in low- and middle-income countries in collaboration with the GHIT Fund
Networks in donor countries
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