[HTML][HTML] Post-elimination surveillance in formerly onchocerciasis endemic focus in Southern Mexico

NA Fernández-Santos, TR Unnasch… - PLoS Neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… , was epidemiologically the most important focus of onchocerciasis in the Americas. Mexico
was verified as having eliminated onchocerciasis in 2015, followed by Guatemala in 2016 [2, …

Progress towards eliminating onchocerciasis in the WHO Region of the Americas: advances in mapping the Yanomami focus area–Progrès vers l'élimination de l' …

O mondiale de la Santé… - Weekly …, 2018 - apps.who.int
… Le Programme pour l’élimination de l’onchocercose dans les Amériques (OEPA) a apporté
un appui technique et financier majeur aux initiatives pour la cartographie et les agents de …

Neglected tropical diseases: public health control programs and mass drug administration

PJ Hotez, NC Lo - Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious …, 2020 - Elsevier
… the public health control and elimination programs for NTDs, … Onchocerciasis Elimination
Program for the Americas (OEPA) MDA with ivermectin has largely eliminated onchocerciasis in …

Scaling-down mass ivermectin treatment for onchocerciasis elimination: modeling the impact of the geographical unit for decision making

WA Stolk, DJ Blok, JID Hamley… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… [6], and the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA; 1993–present) …
the 6 endemic countries of Latin America [7]. Because of these programs, the public health …

Factors affecting onchocerciasis transmission: lessons for infection control

RA Cheke - Expert review of anti-infective therapy, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… of transmission in Latin America: probably permanent cases The Onchocerciasis Elimination
Program for the Americas (OEPA) has … OEPA is a consortium of those countries with the Pan …

Predictive value of Ov16 antibody prevalence in different subpopulations for elimination of African onchocerciasis

LE Coffeng, WA Stolk, A Golden… - American journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… prevalence in assessing elimination of African onchocerciasis, we used … onchocerciasis
that has been extensively used to support decision making in onchocerciasis-control programs

After 70 years of fighting an age-old scourge, onchocerciasis in Uganda, the end is in sight

MN Katabarwa, T Lakwo, P Habomugisha… - International …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA) twice-per-year treatment policy.
In particular, rethinking onchocerciasis elimination … from the Americas concluded that twice-…

[HTML][HTML] A knowledge, attitudes and practices survey conducted three years after halting ivermectin mass treatment for onchocerciasis in Guatemala

FO Richards Jr, RE Klein, O de León… - PLoS Neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… Guatemala was the country in the Americas most afflicted by onchocerciasis, and the largest
… Funding: This study was supported by The Carter Center (TCC) OEPA program and the …

[HTML][HTML] The interruption of transmission of human onchocerciasis by an annual mass drug administration program in Plateau and Nasarawa States, Nigeria

FO Richards Jr, A Eigege, J Umaru… - The American journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… of LF MDA was sufficient to eliminate “hypo-endemic” onchocerciasis (defined in this case as
a … In our hands, the OEPA Ov16 ELISA compared favorably with a monoplex version of the …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the national program for onchocerciasis control in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

JC Makenga Bof, F Ntumba Tshitoka, D Muteba… - Tropical medicine and …, 2019 - mdpi.com
… In summary, Figure 1 highlights the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas
(OEPA) created in 1992 in America, the Onchocerciasis Control Program (OCP) established …