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.