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Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases

Highlighting the commitment from the Kigali declaration and looking at how we can deliver political and financial commitment to eradicate malaria and NTDs and avoid resurgence. This Mediaplanet campaign was distributed with the Guardian newspaper and launched on www.globalcause.co.uk on 16-May 2022

Highlighting the commitment from the Kigali declaration and looking at how we can deliver political and financial commitment to eradicate malaria and NTDs and avoid resurgence.
This Mediaplanet campaign was distributed with the Guardian newspaper and launched on www.globalcause.co.uk on 16-May 2022

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We can end NTDs

but we must show our

commitment now

2022: A pivotal moment

for a more equal world

Incredible progress has been made against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)

but there is still work to be done. The Kigali Declaration on NTDs, a new political

declaration, provides the opportunity to end NTDs.

NTDs are a group of 20

diseases that affect 1.7

billion people globally; they

can debilitate, disfigure

and kill. These diseases include

elephantiasis, rabies, river blindness

and trachoma. We call these diseases

neglected because they affect the

world’s poorest and they receive less

attention than other diseases.

The effects of NTDs are devastating,

they impair cognitive and physical

development in children. They

lead to school and work absences,

particularly in women and girls

who are often responsible for caring

for their family. They also cost the

economies of endemic countries

billions of dollars and can trap

communities in cycles of poverty.

Recognising the success so far

Over the past decade, incredible

progress has been made against NTDs.

So far, 44 countries have eliminated

at least one NTD and 600 million

people no longer require treatment

for NTDs. Some of these diseases that

have plagued humanity for centuries,

such as leprosy, sleeping sickness and

guinea worm disease are also at an alltime

low. This shows that ending NTDs

is within our power, but there is still

work to be done.

The Kigali Declaration on NTDs

pushes us forward

The Kigali Declaration on NTDs is a

new high-level political declaration

that will launch later in 2022 at the

Kigali Summit on Malaria and NTDs,

alongside the 26th Commonwealth

Heads of Government meeting. The

Kigali Declaration will put country

ownership of NTD programmes,

integration and cross-sectoral

collaboration at the front and centre

to ensure that these programmes are

sustainable in the long term.

The Declaration provides the

opportunity to mobilise the political

will, community commitment,

resources and action needed to end

unnecessary suffering from NTDs.

Signatories of this declaration

pledge to do their part to ensure that

NTDs are eradicated, eliminated or

controlled by 2030.

Commitment to ending NTDs is needed

By working together, adopting peoplecentred

approaches and working

across sectors in an integrated manner,

we can end NTDs and achieve WHO

2030 NTD road map targets. Now

is the moment for leaders, donors,

companies and organisations to

make endorsements behind the

Kigali Declaration and show they are

100% committed to ending NTDs.

These commitments will help relieve

needless suffering, decrease the

health-related drivers of poverty, make

our health systems more resilient and

our world an equitable and safer place.

For more information visit 100percentcommitted.com

WRITTEN BY

Thoko Elphick-Pooley

Executive Director,

Uniting to Combat

Neglected Tropical

Diseases

Ending malaria and NTDs will save lives, advance equity and build resilience.

Over the past two years, no

country has been spared

the impacts of COVID-19, a

deadly infectious disease that

killed millions, infected millions and

devastated communities, economies

and health systems. The same impacts

can be attributed to malaria and

neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)

however, these diseases have been

around for millennia and typically

prey on the world’s poorest in Africa.

Ending preventable and treatable diseases

In 2000, global leaders committed

funding and action to reduce cases

and deaths caused by these diseases.

Thanks to this strong political will

and increased funding, by 2015

malaria deaths were cut by over

half and more than 5 billion NTD

preventive treatments were delivered.

The tremendous progress achieved

through global collaboration and

commitment prompted more

ambition to end these preventable

and treatable diseases by 2030.

In the case of malaria, a turning

point was the launch of the Global

Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis

and Malaria. Significantly, 20 years

later, the Global Fund, working with

the US President’s Malaria Initiative

and country partners, has saved 44

million lives.

But in the last two years, progress

has slowed and cases and deaths are

on the rise. With challenges of drug

and insecticide resistance, COVID-19

and humanitarian emergencies, the

world is at a precarious juncture in the

fight against malaria.

Better prepared for better results

However, there is hope on the horizon.

Thanks to greater country ownership,

better use of data and targeting of

existing and new tools, a pipeline

of transformative tools and strong

political will. And, if governments,

the private sector, communities and

partners come together later this year

to fulfil the Global Fund’s Seventh

Replenishment goal of at least USD 18

billion, we can turbocharge progress

again toward a malaria-free future.

By mobilising new funding, we can

scale up existing and breakthrough

tools, including new nets and vaccines

and better target interventions to the

local context. We also must invest

more in research and development to

deliver transformative new tools, such

as second-generation vaccines, that

will accelerate our path to malaria

eradication.

Critically, these innovative

approaches will also help countries

strengthen their health systems,

allowing them to better protect citizens

against malaria and NTDs and be

better prepared for future pandemics.

With COVID, we’ve seen what the

world can do when it comes together.

Let’s recommit to saving millions more

lives from malaria and NTDs, invest

in health and deliver a more equitable

world for all.

WRITTEN BY

Dr Corine Karema

Interim CEO, RBM

Partnership to End

Malaria

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@GlobalcauseUK @MediaplanetUK

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