World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day

Bajo el lema "Unir. Actuar. Eliminar", este 30 de enero se celebra el día de estas 21 enfermedades, que afectan al 20% de la población mundial.

30 January 2024

 

Annualy, on January 30th World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day is celebrated in commemoration of the presentation of the first WHO roadmap and the 2012 London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). This year’s theme, “Unite. Act. Eliminate”, is a call-for-action from the NTDs community to “Come together to achieve our goals”, to assess “What we need to act effectively”, and to reflect on “Where we are on elimination”. It is inspired by President Embaló of Guinea-Bissau, in a piece published in Health Policy Watch in July 2023.
“We want to end neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). To achieve this, we need sustainable financing for NTDs. Investing in NTDs is a global health and development success story. So far, 50 countries have eliminated an NTD, showing progress is possible. In 2020, 600 million fewer people required interventions against NTDs than in 2010. Yet, for some time, a lack of resources has been seen as a significant barrier to the control, elimination, and eradication of NTDs. This challenge has only been intensified by COVID-19 which has caused severe delays and disruption to NTD programmes, as well as a massive repurposing and diversion of resources”.
The Chagas Global Coalition will be joining this day through our ChagatChat, a project developed last year as a virtual space where we talk about Neglected Tropical Diseases with people from the Chagas disease community.

 

Thanks to the organizations working relentlessly to eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases as a public health problem, during these weeks a number of events have been organized to celebrate this years’s World Day, to call for participation. Join on January 30th and share its content under the hashtag #WorldNTDDay:
January 23
Online event – Trachoma: Accelerating progress to elimination as a public health problem
Sightsavers and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) are holding an online event on 23 January 2024 to share and discuss learnings around how to eliminate the infectious eye disease trachoma.
Date: January 23 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Online
Register Here
Canadian Engagement in Global Trachoma Elimination Strategies 
Join us for an exciting online event where we will explore Canadian engagement in the global efforts to eliminate trachoma. Trachoma is a preventable neglected tropical disease that affects the eye and is the leading infectious cause of blindness globally, affecting millions of people in 42 countries worldwide.  
Date: January 23 2024
Time: 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Online
Register Here
January 26
Hybrid Event – NNN Skin Cross Cutting Group: Uniting Globally for Skin-NTDs. 
The event will be hosted physically in Kathmandu, Nepal with the celebration, themed #Unite4SkinNTDs. The theme is an acknowledgement of the collective efforts undertaken for the control of Skin-NTDs and an invitation to unite our forces for continued endeavors. In the program, multiple partner organizations will be coming together in showing their support towards Skin-NTDs.
Date: January 26 2024
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM (Nepal Standard Time)
Location: Dusit Princess, Kathmandu (Physical) & Online
Register Here
Expresso Chagas em Ação: workshop de devolutiva de resultados em Posse/GO
On January 25 and 26, 2024, this Fiocruz project will hold the Workshop “Expresso Chagas in Action!” (Expresso Chagas em Ação, in Portuguese). With the theme “Chagas Disease in Primary Health Care”, it aims to bring together all the participants of the Chagas XXI Express in Posse, which took place on November 3 and 5, 2022, with health professionals and other stakeholders.
Date: January 25-26h, 2024
Time: 13 – 17 h (Brazil)