[HTML][HTML] Assessing Hypoendemic Onchocerciasis in Loa loa Endemic Areas of Southeast Nigeria

LJ Rakers, E Emukah, B Kahansim… - The American Journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Korea), 23 and the ELISA Ov16 methodology that was developed by the Onchocerciasis
Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA) (the “OEPA ELISA”) in 10% of samples. The study …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Community towards an Onchocerciasis Elimination Program from South West Ethiopia

H Worku, M Mola, BD Alemu, SS Jemal… - Journal of Tropical …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… However, according to another study, OEPA (Onchocerciasis Elimination Program of the
Americas) is now using doxycycline and Ivermectin treatment four times a year as a strategy to …

[HTML][HTML] The Galabat-Metema cross-border onchocerciasis focus: the first coordinated interruption of onchocerciasis transmission in Africa

MN Katabarwa, IMA Zarroug, N Negussu… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… context of the two national elimination programs. Fortunately, Sudan and … onchocerciasis
transmission elimination using twice-per-year ivermectin MDA. Sudan launched its elimination

[HTML][HTML] Status of Onchocerciasis Elimination in Gabon and Challenges: A Systematic Review

ER Eyang-Assengone, P Makouloutou-Nzassi… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
… has been made towards elimination of onchocerciasis as a … control and elimination
programmes, such as the OEPA (1993–… out in the United States of America reports the presence of …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-based tools for onchocerciasis elimination: Utility of the mitochondrial genome for delineating Onchocerca volvulus transmission zones

KE Crawford, SM Hedtke, SR Doyle, AC Kuesel… - International Journal for …, 2024 - Elsevier
… , affect the impact of control and elimination strategies on infection prevalence. …
onchocerciasis-endemic areas. When the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program in the Americas

[HTML][HTML] Elimination of Simulium neavei–Transmitted Onchocerciasis in Wambabya–Rwamarongo Focus of Western Uganda

MN Katabarwa, P Habomugisha… - The American Journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
onchocerciasis elimination policy launched in 2007, the Wambabya–Rwamarongo
onchocerciasis … complemented with vector elimination. The Carter Center provided support for …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic epidemiology in filarial nematodes: transforming the basis for elimination program decisions

SM Hedtke, AC Kuesel, KE Crawford, PM Graves… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… The Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA) was initiated in 1993 to …
onchocerciasis through nodulectomy campaigns and annual ivermectin treatments, the OEPA

Appraising Onchocerciasis Community Directed Treatment with Ivermectin: Problems, Progress and Prospects

HO Osue - Sokoto Journal of Medical Laboratory Science, 2023 - sokjmls.com.ng
… The search for a African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control … Onchocerciasis Elimination
sustaining CDTI will continue to remain a major Programme of the Americas (OEPA) that …

[PDF][PDF] The role of entomology in onchocerciasis elimination

TL Lakwo - 2023 - repository.uantwerpen.be
elimination. Despite the enormous contribution of vector control in onchocerciasis elimination
… in the context of Uganda onchocerciasis elimination programme of the Ministry of Health, …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of ivermectin on onchocerciasis in villages co-endemic for lymphatic filariasis in an area of onchocerciasis recrudescence in Burkina Faso

AS Nikièma, L Koala, AK Sondo, RJ Post… - PLoS Neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
elimination of transmission by the Onchocerciasis Elimination Programme for the Americas
(OEPA), and further studies in Africa also showed that onchocerciasis could be eliminated