The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are convening a webinar to showcase the mid-term evaluation of the NTD road map 2021–2030, published on 4 November as the Global report on neglected tropical diseases 2026.
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect more than 1 billion people, predominantly those living in poverty, or remote or fragile settings, and with limited access to essential health services. Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030 (“the road map”), endorsed by the Seventy-third World Health Assembly in 2020, set targets for the prevention, control, elimination and eradication of 20 diseases and disease groups, since expanded to 21 with the addition of noma in December 2023.
The year 2025 marked the midpoint of implementation of the road map, making it a timely moment to evaluate progress and recalibrate priorities for the second half of the decade. This mid-term evaluation examines implementation and impact during 2021–2025 and provides recommendations for 2026–2030.
The mid-term evaluation combines a quantitative analysis of 71 global indicators with a structured qualitative assessment across 11 dimensions, informed by more than 350 experts, programme managers, policy-makers and partners.
This 90-minute webinar will open with WHO leadership and an overview of the mid-term evaluation’s findings. Speakers will then discuss the key priorities identified in the report, the lessons learned from 2021–2025 and the way forward to 2030. There will be time for audience questions.
Please register here: https://www.rstmh.org/events/real-gains-fragile-progress-what-ntd-road-map-mid-term-evaluation-tells-us