The meeting will focus on strengthening efforts & harmonizing the use of resources to accelerate the elimination & eradication of NTDs in the region.
A Regional Stakeholders’ Consultative Meeting on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) will take place from 20 to 22 March in Brazzaville, Congo.
More than 70 participants are expected to attend the meeting, which will focus on ways of strengthening regional efforts and harmonizing the use of resources to accelerate the elimination and eradication of targeted NTDs in the African Region. Participants will also discuss and review the current status of NTDs, the regional NTD milestones, issues of coordination, and options for leveraging existing and new resources to fund integrated country NTD programmes.Participants in the three-day meeting will be drawn from endemic countries, donor agencies, pharmaceutical firms, technical experts, policy makers, senior officials of WHO and national and international NGOs.
The Brazzaville meeting follows the June 2012 Accra Regional Stakeholders’ Consultative Meeting on NTDs which, among other things, identified and discussed the priorities and commitments of all partners required for the urgent scaling up of activities towards control and elimination of NTDs which, globally, mainly affect one billion people at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder.
The regional milestones to be discussed at the Brazzaville stakeholders’ meeting will be used as the basis for updating the regional strategic plan for achieving the 2020 NTD goals in the African region.
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