• The day marks the anniversary of the 2012 London Declaration on NTDs which brought together partners across sectors, countries, and communities to push 
for greater investment and action against these diseases.

World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Day is celebrated every year on January 30. Since its launch in 2020, the day has been set aside to raise awareness of neglected tropical diseases and strive for their elimination by encouraging support.

The day marks the anniversary of the 2012 London Declaration on NTDs which brought together partners across sectors, countries, and communities to push 
for greater investment and action against these diseases.

First championed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Day serves as a catalyst to translate awareness into action, stimulate new commitments, and celebrate the collaboration between countries and global health partners that continues to drive progress.

This year, the theme is Unite. Act. Eliminate. But what are these diseases? NTDs are a group of preventable or treatable diseases affecting more than 1 billion people globally. They impact the people who are mostly hard top reach.

These diseases include Buruli ulcer; Chagas disease; dengue and chikungunya; dracunculiasis; echinococcosis; foodborne trematodiases; human African trypanosomiasis; leishmaniasis; leprosy; lymphatic filariasis; mycetoma, chromoblastomycosis and other deep mycoses; noma; onchocerciasis; rabies; scabies and other ectoparasitoses

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NTDs can be fatal as they disfigure and disable thus causing immense suffering. They commonly affect marginalized communities resulting in poverty.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls on everybody to unite, act and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

“The purpose of World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day is to raise the profile of NTDs, highlight the suffering they cause and garner support for their control, elimination or eradication, in line with the programmatic targets set out in WHO’s road map 2021−2030 and the commitments of the 2022 Kigali declaration on neglected tropical diseases,” says the WHO.