Global report on neglected tropical diseases 2023

Epidemiological data were analysed by Junerlyn Farah Agua and Alexei Mikhailov (WHO/
NTD). Input on health economics was provided by Xiaoxian Huang (WHO/NTD). Topical
and disease-specific technical inputs were provided by Bernadette Abela-Ridder, Pedro
Albajar Viñas, Kingsley Asiedu, Katrin Bote, Daniel Argaw Dagne, Dmitry Esin, José Ramon
Franco Minguell, Amadou Garba Djirmay, Jiagang Guo, Saurabh Jain, Kaushi Kanankege,
Jonathan King, Anh Tuan Le, Antonio Montresor, Bethany Sarah Moos, Denise Mupfasoni,
Deborah Nadal, Priya Pathak, Gerardo Priotto, Prabha Rajamani, Maria Rebollo-Polo, José
Antonio Ruiz-Postigo, Dieudonné Sankara, Anthony Solomon, Afework Tekle, Charles
Turner, Raman Velayudhan, David Williams, Rajpal Yadav and Qingxia Zhong (WHO/NTD);
and Vivek Lal and V.R.R Pemmaraju (WHO Global Leprosy Programme). Support towards
the finalization of this report was provided by the entire staff of WHO/NTD.

Technical advice and updates were provided by the WHO regional offices for Africa (Didier
Bakajika, Yves Barogui, Abate Beshah, Jorge Cano Ortega, Lamine Diawara, Augustin
Kadima Ebeja, Andrew Seidu Korkor, Pauline Mwinzi, Honorat Zouré), the Americas
(Ronaldo Carvalho Scholte, Luis Gerardo Castellanos, Ana Nilce Elkhoury, Ana Lucianez,
Santiago Nicholls, Martha Saboya, Jose Luis San Martín, Haroldo Sergio da Silva Bezerra,
Samantha Valadas, Marco Vigilato), the Eastern Mediterranean (Hoda Atta, Samira

al-Eryani, Yvan Hutin, Mona Osman, Supriya Warusavithana), Europe