The UK provided a total of £39.5m in funding to the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme between 2009 and 2018. Funding allocations to countries were flexible to allow scale up or down as required. Between 2015 and 2018, of a total of £9.5 million, the estimated breakdown of spending by country was: £1.235 million in Ethiopia; £4.75 million in South Sudan; £0.285 million in Mali; £1.71 million in Chad; and £1.52 million in non-country specific spending.