SCI Foundation is now Unlimit Health. Learn more about what the change means for our ongoing efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases

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Key facts

  • Population: 99.3 million
  • Percentage living in poverty: 23.5%
  • Number requiring treatment for intestinal worm infections: 19.4 million*
  • Number requiring treatment for schistosomiasis: 15.9 million*

Programme information

  • Programme start date: 2013
  • Treatments delivered in FY 2019-20: 25,051,529^
  • Numbers treated to date: 35,098,201^
  • Programme coverage status: Scaling up to reach all at-risk SAC^^

Stories

People are exposed to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) due to their daily household needs and livelihood activities, as shown in this story from Ethiopia.

Meet Kibet (below), a primary school student in Ethiopia. Learn more about how the programmes we support have helped him.

Read about his story

Kibet, a primary school student in Ethiopia

Footnotes:

* Data from WHO schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth database.

^ For every treatment provided against schistosomiasis, treatments are also offered against intestinal worm infections where both diseases are present. Treatment numbers are for schistosomiasis only and dating from 2010 when the current reporting system was established. Numbers from January 2020.

^^ We support the programme in-line with the country’s strategic plan. As such, individuals other than school-age children may be treated.