Onchocerciasis

BA Boatin, U Amazigo - Neglected Tropical Diseases-Sub-Saharan Africa, 2016 - Springer
Americas to successfully eliminate onchocerciasis (PAHO). Reports from the Carter Center
(July 2013) indicated that four out of the six of the endemic countries in the AmericasOEPA

[HTML][HTML] Research for new drugs for elimination of onchocerciasis in Africa

AC Kuesel - International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug …, 2016 - Elsevier
… the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA… in all villages in which
onchocerciasis was endemic. This was … Yemen is targeting onchocerciasis elimination through …

Onchocerciasis (river blindness)–more than a century of research and control

NW Brattig, RA Cheke, R Garms - Acta Tropica, 2021 - Elsevier
… in the Americas, in Uganda, in Sudan and elsewhere, followed by onchocerciasis eliminations
The current state and future perspectives for control, elimination and eradication within the …

[PDF][PDF] Report of the 1st meeting of the WHO onchocerciasis technical advisory subgroup, Varembé Conference Centre, Geneva, Switzerland, 10-12 October 2017

World Health Organization - 2018 - apps.who.int
… of programme activities needed to achieve elimination and to … guidelines, the Onchocerciasis
Technical Advisory Subgroup … common strategies for onchocerciasis elimination mapping, …

Diagnostics for onchocerciasis in the era of elimination

TR Unnasch, A Golden, V Cama… - International …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
America, the approach that was used by the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the
Americas … focus prior to the beginning of the program. The epidemiological and entomological …

[HTML][HTML] Developing strategies for onchocerciasis elimination mapping and surveillance through the diagnostic network optimization approach

H Albert, B Sartorius, PR Bessell… - Frontiers in Tropical …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… ivermectin (CDTi), the elimination of onchocerciasis in 11 out of 13 foci in the Americas (2–4), …
Organization (WHO) to include elimination of onchocerciasis in its roadmap for overcoming …

[PDF][PDF] Report of the third meeting of the WHO onchocerciasis technical advisory subgroup: Geneva, 26-28 February 2019

World Health Organization - 2020 - apps.who.int
Americas and in the aforementioned countries is referred to as the Onchocerciasis Elimination
Program of the Americas (OEPA… in the United States of America, Cameroon and Kenya …

[HTML][HTML] Onchocerciasis control in Ghana (1974–2016)

NK Biritwum, DK de Souza, O Asiedu, B Marfo… - Parasites & vectors, 2021 - Springer
… in Africa including Ghana, in Yemen, and in small foci in six Latin American countries [2]. …
lymphatic filariasis elimination programme was combined with the onchocerciasis programme, …

[HTML][HTML] Community-Directed Vector Control to Accelerate Onchocerciasis Elimination

B Jacob, E Michael, TR Unnasch - Pathogens, 2024 - mdpi.com
… Africa and the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program of the Americas (OEPA). OEPA, employing
a … , has succeeded in eliminating onchocerciasis in four of the six former countries in Latin …

[PDF][PDF] Systematic review on onchocerciasis infection in Nigeria in the past five decades.

EC Ogbonna, OR Ikani - 2020 - researchgate.net
… in American, a similar program for the Americas known as the Onchocerciasis Elimination
Program for the Americas, (OEPA) began in 1992 with it objectives of eliminating ocular morbid…