The wide-ranging discussion highlighted the need for more research and development, the importance of sustainability, and pointed out that good health creates good wealth.
Twenty diseases endemic in 150 countries are officially listed as NTDs. A resolution to eliminate these diseases was set out in the WHO’s 2020 Roadmap, and the new 2030 Roadmap builds on that work to deliver individual programmes to reduce the burden of these NTDs. While major progress has been made in the last decade, panellists agreed that more work was needed in terms of diagnostics, tools and surveillance in the current political and economic climate.