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A course on the monitoring and evaluating framework for progress of the road map for NTDs 2021-2030.

Interactive dashboard displaying progress against the NTD road map 2021-2030 

The sixteenth meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases (STAG-NTD) was held as a hybrid meeting, 27–28 September 2022.

This manual describes local, bottom-up planning (“microplanning”) to foster effective implementation and monitoring of public health programmes.

WHO Weekly epidemiological record 9648 - Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases: treating millions of people in 2021.

This first edition describes the standard operating procedures for health products for NTDs amenable to preventive chemotherapy and the medicines donated to treat them.

WHO Evidence-based recommendations on: prevalence thresholds, target age groups and frequency of PC, establishment of WASH and snail control activities to support control and elimination of schistosomiasis, diagnostic tests for the assessment of schistosomiasis infection in animal reservoirs, in snail hosts, and in humans.

WHO Weekly epidemiological record 9648 - Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases: treating millions of people in 2020, despite the pandemic.

From 2015–2019, over 1 billion people received one or more of the above interventions for NTDs. As a consequence, great progress has been made to reduce NTD prevalence and incidence. In 2020, special circumstances prevailed, as will be discussed in more detail in this paper.

This WHO webinar on ending the neglect to attain the SDGs will present a framework for monitoring and evaluating progress against the WHO neglected tropical diseases road map targets 2021-2030.

Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a sustainability framework for action against neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030 is a companion document to the road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021−2030.

This document provides a decision-making framework for implementation of mass treatment interventions, active case-finding campaigns and population-based surveys for neglected tropical diseases in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This document is intended to guide NTD programmes in members states in the WHO region for Africa in developing the next generation NTD Master Plans in line with WHO Roadmap 2030. The document is open for inputs from stakeholders.

Considerations for implementing mass treatment, active case‐finding and population-based surveys for neglected tropical diseases in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The WHO and UNICEF have issued a joint report and iterim guidance on Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns,in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context recommends practical actions that countries can take at national, subregional and local levels to reorganize and safely maintain access to high-quality, essential health services in the pandemic context

The 146th session of WHO’s Executive Board, meeting in February 2020 requested the Director-General to develop, in consultations with Member States and stakeholders, the new road map for neglected tropical diseases for the period 2021–2030.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have called for integrated efforts to address the disparate burden of diseases borne by women and girls in Africa.

WHO publishes "Preventive Chemotherapy: Tools for improving the quality of reported data and information, A field manual for implementation"

The new WHO and NTD NGO Network interactive online toolkit to build effective WASH-NTD partnerships is out now.

This is the second edition of WHO Bench aids for the diagnosis of intestinal parasites, intended both as a practical tool for the diagnosis of intestinal parasitic infections for laboratory and field workers and as a teaching aid for students and trainees.

A generic model that can be used for risk assessment of larviciding and mollusciciding.

The WHO's 13th General Programme of Work (GPW13) approved by the seventy-first World Health Assembly (WHA).

THe WHO and NNN step-by-step practical document and toolkit to cross-sectoral collaborative work for WASH and NTD agencies, departments and practicioners.

Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases: number of people treated in 2016

The purpose of the manual is to assist programme managers with the introduction and implementation of a snail control intervention as part of an integrated schistosomiasis control and elimination program me, and as promoted by WHO’s integrated vector management approach.

This Female Genital Schistosomiasis Pocket Atlas has been developed as a visual aid to raise awareness of the infection and to facilitate clinical diagnosis by clinical health-care professionals working in low-resource settings, especially in rural areas where schistosomiasis is endemic.

WHO children's comic book "Bambo has bilharzia: what children should know about bilharzia"