Dr. Rachel Bronzan, Senior Program Officer with the Gates Foundation, shared updates on RLMF’s evolving role in supporting NTD elimination during the April 17 session on the current global health funding landscape. She was joined by Lungi Okoko (Gates) and Herma Gebru (CIFF). Other partners from WHO-HQ, WHO-AFRO, and the African Union and representatives from Angola, Benin, Ethiopia, and Tanzania were in attendance.

At the 2025 Skoll World Forum’s Marmalade Festival in Oxford, the END Fund hosted a screening of “The Fly Collectors,” an award-winning film showcasing Senegalese volunteers working to eliminate river blindness. The event concluded with a powerful discussion on how collaborative philanthropy is accelerating the fight against NTDs once considered unbeatable.