2026 World NTD Day Guide
January 30, 2026 marks the 7th annual World NTD Day—a key moment to spotlight progress against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), strengthen political will, mobilize resources, and reinforce country leadership in affected communities.
On World NTD Day, the END Fund is launching two exciting new multi-media projects: Visualizing Neglect, a first of its kind NTD data storytelling platform, and The Fly Collectors, an award winning documentary about the elimination of river blindness in Senegal.
These initiatives show what it looks like when countries, pharmaceutical partners, and philanthropists work together to control and eliminate NTDs.
Visualizing Neglect is an interactive, multi-media experience that translates complex NTD data into a clear, public-facing narrative. It helps audiences digest burden and neglect at scale, track progress over time, and offers real life examples of how country leadership and partnership are driving results. At the same time, it highlights where the burden of NTDs continues to persist, and the need for more investment.
With more elimination milestones being reached, we’re telling a clear story: NTDs are solvable — and collaborative investment is delivering results.
The Fly Collectors is a documentary film that highlights the history of river blindness control and elimination in West Africa, and the extraordinary volunteers in Senegal who collect flies by hand to monitor disease transmission. Their work is painstaking, vital, and is bringing Senegal closer to eliminating river blindness. Over the last two years, the Fly Collectors has toured the world, captivating audiences in film festivals from New York to Nigeria. For World NTD Day, audiences will be able to watch the full film for the first time on YouTube.
Help us spread the word
The links below offer a series recommended posts anchored to both assets intended to support our partners in communicating the challenge ahead of us in eliminating NTDs on World NTD Day. This social toolkit provides everything you will need to talk about the moment online, across a range of platforms.
Posts can be adapted and tailored to different audience groups, however, this toolkit provides a clear messaging backbone for coherence and consistency.
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Featured Campaigns
Visualizing Neglect
Share the data visualization story to show how collective investment is moving the world closer to elimination.
The Fly Collectors (Short Film)
Share the trailer and promotional clips to drive audiences to the full film on launch day, January 30th.
2026 Social Media Toolkit
Post 1: (Download the graphic)
River blindness has impacted millions of lives across West Africa, but elimination is within reach.
The Fly Collectors, a film by @theENDFund and @RLMF (Reaching the Last Mile Fund), highlights the history of river blindness control and the extraordinary volunteers in Senegal who collect flies by hand to monitor disease transmission. Their work is painstaking, vital, and is bringing Senegal closer to eliminating river blindness.
You can watch the full film on YouTube: https://bit.ly/49FbmDS
Post 2: (Download the graphics)
On World NTD Day, we want to celebrate the quiet, historic progress made against neglected tropical diseases. The data is clear: hundreds of millions of fewer people require treatment globally than just a few years ago and 58 countries have eliminated at least one NTD.
To learn more, check out this data visualization about the neglect that has produced one of the most profound modern public health crises.
https://endfund.org/visualizing-neglect/
Post 3: (Download the graphics)
On World NTD Day, we want to highlight the steady leadership from countries like Nigeria in the effort to end neglected tropical diseases. Nigeria carries the highest burden of NTDs in Africa and the second highest globally, with 165 million people — 84 percent of the population — in need of treatment.
To meet the challenge, Nigeria has operated one of the world’s largest mass drug administration programs, averaging over 100 million treatments annually since 2019. Eliminating all NTDs by 2030 could generate an estimated $19 billion in economic gains for the national economy.
Learn more about Nigeria’s place within the global NTD landscape.
https://endfund.org/visualizing-neglect/
Post 4: (Download the Graphics)
In 2025, a wave of countries announced the WHO-validated elimination of trachoma- Burundi, Mauritania, Senegal, Fiji, Egypt and India –– adding to the growing list of 26 countries worldwide that have now ended trachoma as a public health concern.
Trachoma remains a public health problem in 34 countries, but progress has been steady with fewer than 100M currently needing treatment, a reduction of 70 percent since 2013.
On World NTD Day, learn more about the achievements being made in trachoma control and elimination.
https://endfund.org/visualizing-neglect/
