Millions of people around the world die every year from lack of treatment. Yet only a fraction of the world’s pharmaceutical research and development focuses on diseases affecting poor and vulnerable communities.
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, DNDi, is an international not-for-profit organization that discovers, develops, and delivers safe, effective, and affordable treatments for the most neglected patients. We use the power of innovation, open science, partnerships, and advocacy to forge solutions to a great injustice: the lack of medicines for life-threatening diseases that Disproportionately impact poor and marginalized people.
We develop urgently needed treatments for neglected patients and work to ensure they’re affordable, available, and adapted to the communities who need them while working hand in hand with partners in low- and middle-income countries to power our progress and strengthen innovation ecosystems that put people’s needs first. We also speak out for policy change to enable more effective and equitable R&D and access to the fruits of science for all people in need, no matter their income or where they live. So far, DNDi has developed 13 treatments for 6 deadly diseases, saving millions of lives.
