An R&D Blueprint for Neglected Tropical Diseases

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.