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Africa's NTDs Fight in Peril As Funding Crisis Deepens

Africa accounts for 40% of the global burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), affecting over 500 million people. There have been 24 countries that have eliminated at least one NTD. However, funding cuts threaten to undo this hard-won success.

The reductions risk reversing decades of progress, disrupting essential services like mass drug administration and surveillance, and putting millions of lives at risk. To maintain progress, it is vital to keep up domestic resource mobilization, integrate NTDs into health systems, innovate in diagnostics and treatments, and sustain political commitment, reports allAfrica's Melody Chironda.

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Fatuma Said, 59, visits her grandchild’s home in Mbwewe village, Chalinze district, Pwani region, Tanzania. She is a former patient of a neglected tropical disease that, if left untreated, can cause blindness.

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