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Breaking the silence. Mobilizing action to save children’s lives.
Neglected
Parasite
Initiative
Ignored. Underfunded. Deadly.
NPI cofounder Wes Van Voorhis explains why preventing over 200,000 child deaths each year is urgent—and how doing so could transform millions of lives.
Why Neglect Is Killing Children
Build the coalition. Speed the science. Deliver the tools that save kids’ lives.
We act by mobilizing a coalition of clinicians, researchers, and changemakers. It accelerates drug development, amplifies media campaigns to raise awareness, and lobbies institutions like the WHO to officially recognize cryptosporidiosis as a Neglected Tropical Disease. This recognition would unlock funding, incentives, and attention, through global collaboration, advocacy, and relentless scientific pursuit.
NPI exists because cryptosporidiosis is one of the deadliest yet most overlooked threats to child health worldwide. Hundreds of thousands of children die each year from this parasite, yet the disease remains largely invisible. We are driven by urgency, justice, and the conviction that no child should die from a disease the world chooses to ignore.
NPI produces campaigns, partnerships, research initiatives, funding drives, and ultimately new diagnostics and vaccines. These are the tangible actions and deliverables that flow from its deeper purpose.
What We Do
How We Work
The Problem
A malnourished child in a diarrhea ward in Africa — one of 550 children who die every day from Cryptosporidiosis., while millions more suffer lifelong impairment.
