World NTD Day 2025

On World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on everybody, including leaders and communities, to unite, act and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by making bold, sustainable investments to free the estimated 1.5 billion people, in the world’s most vulnerable communities, from a vicious cycle of disease and poverty.

The purpose of World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day is to raise the profile of NTDs, highlight the suffering they cause and garner support for their control, elimination or eradication, in line with the programmatic targets set out in WHO’s road map 2021−2030 and the commitments of the 2022 Kigali declaration on neglected tropical diseases.