‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses | Global development

Sulaiman Tarawallie, a community health worker in Sierra Leone, distributed medication annually to combat river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, but lost his job along with 30,000 others after USAID’s NTD programme was cancelled. The programme, which leveraged $26 in donated medicines for every $1 of US government funding, had successfully treated 1.7 billion people across 31 countries and eliminated NTDs in many. Despite the programme’s success, its suspension has put millions at risk and halted progress towards eliminating these debilitating diseases.

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