After successfully eliminating sleeping sickness in June 2025, highlighted by the WHO certificate handover on August 8, 2025, Kenya aims to eradicate multiple other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2030.

• Kenya plans to eliminate diseases like trachoma, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, rabies, and soil-transmitted helminths by 2027, 2028, and 2030.
• Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale affirmed Kenya's commitment to eliminating more diseases, focusing on rural communities.
• The strategy involves replicating the success used against sleeping sickness, which had no locally transmitted cases for over ten years, through surveillance, vector control, and improved access to testing and treatment.