Celebrating 30+ years of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A.‘s* donation of Mectizan “as much as needed, for as long as needed,” the Mectizan Donation Program is the longest-running Neglected Tropical Disease drug donation program of its kind. More than 300 million treatments of Mectizan and albendazole (donated by GSK) are provided yearly for river blindness (onchocerciasis) and lymphatic filariasis elimination worldwide.
*Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A., is known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada.