Five years ago, those working to prevent the hundreds of thousands of deaths and permanent injuries annually from snakebite had a win.
The World Health Organization agreed on a strategy to increase access to high-quality antivenoms and increase awareness in high-risk areas in order to try and halve deaths and disability from snakes by 2030. WHO put the total price tag for the work at around $137 million.
Fast-forward to 2024, and not all of that money has materialized.
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Vince Chadwick is a contributing reporter at Devex. A law graduate from Melbourne, Australia, he was social affairs reporter for The Age newspaper, before covering breaking news, the arts, and public policy across Europe, including as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe. He was long-listed for International Journalist of the Year at the 2023 One World Media Awards.
