NTDs are tied to nearly every major global health issue we face today – water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, maternal and child health, to name a few – and impact many socio-economic issues, such as the success of programs to improve education, women and girls’ empowerment and economic development.
To highlight the relationship between NTDs and other major global issues and to show how important it is to help fight these diseases, the Global Network put together a few new videos.
NTDs & Water
NTDs & Nutrition
We fight these diseases because of the horrific impact that they have on poor communities, and because we know they can be beaten by the end of this decade.