01354nas a2200109   4500000000100000008004100001100003100042245026200073856015400335300000600489520074900495       2024                            d1 aWorld Health Organization 00aTo develop, via a globally collaborative Research and Development platform, new fit-for-purpose tools to prevent, diagnose, treat, control, eliminate and eradicate NTDs that will accelerate attainment of the targets in the 2021–2030 NTD road map. These in  uhttps://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/ntds/neglected-tropical-diseases-non-disease-specific/ntd-rd-bp-en.pdf?sfvrsn=e030d8b9_13&download=true  a13 a<p>To develop, via a globally collaborative Research and Development platform, new fit-for-purpose tools to prevent, diagnose, treat, control, eliminate and eradicate NTDs that will accelerate attainment of the targets in the 2021–2030 NTD road map. These include, by 2030 a 90% reduction in the number of people worldwide requiring interventions against NTDs; a 75% reduction in NTD-related disability-adjusted life years; 100 countries having eliminated at least one NTD; the eradication of Guinea-worm disease and yaws; interruption of transmission of gambiense sleeping sickness in 15 countries, leprosy in 120 and onchocerciasis in 12; and 90% of countries including NTD interventions in their funded package of essential services.</p>