NTD Morbidity and Disability (NMD) Toolkit
Given the cross-cutting nature of many NTD-related disabilities, there is good potential for disability measurement instruments to be used across different NTDs. This is particularly true for aspects like visual impairment, anxiety and depression, activity limitations, restrictions in social participation and stigma and discrimination. An NTD Morbidity and Disability (NMD) Toolkit has been compiled to use this potential. A successful initial validation was carried out in Brazil in 2015, and further validation studies in other countries with other tools and other NTDs will be done in the course of 2016. The instruments currently included in the NMD Toolkit can be found here. However, the toolkit is not a static entity and new tools may be added if they address aspects of NTD-related morbidity and disability that would useful to assess.