Resolution WHA 66.12 on Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Recognizing also the importance of the Global Plan to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases 2008–2015;

Noting WHO’s roadmap to accelerate the work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases;

Recognizing also the diversity of neglected tropical diseases, their causative agents and relevant vectors and intermediate hosts, their epidemic potential (such as for dengue, Chagas disease, human rabies of canine origin and leishmaniasis), and their morbidity, mortality and associated stigmatization,

1. URGES Member States:  to [...etc.]

2. CALLS upon WHO’s international partners, including intergovernmental, international and nongovernmental organizations, financing bodies, academic and research institutions, civil society and the private sector: t. {...}

3. REQUESTS the Director-General: to [...]