The World Health Organization’s Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme (WHO/NTD) manages a diverse portfolio of 21 diseases and disease groups,1 each with its own unique epidemiology and diagnostic challenges. Programmes to address each of these diseases have different targets as set in the road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030 (“the road map”): control, elimination as a public health problem, elimination of transmission or eradication. These programmatic targets may also chan