Nigeria, May 28 -- A call to lead a Nigeria NTD Elimination Accelerator for lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, and trachoma.

Dear General TY Danjuma,

In Africa, it is said that when the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind. Your decades of service and quiet investment in Nigeria's healthcare have already put down deep roots in communities that have for too long borne the weight of neglected tropical diseases alone. In that spirit of respect, this appeal is made: Nigeria does not need more speeches about neglected tropical diseases. It needs a final push to end the ones already within reach.

Today, neglected tropical diseases still blind, disable, stigmatise, and impoverish millions of Nigerians, mostly in poor and und...