Cross-border issues: an important component of onchocerciasis elimination programmes [0.03%]
跨境问题：盘尾丝虫病消除项目的重点组成部分
Simon Bush,Yao Sodahlon,Philip Downs et al.
Simon Bush et al.
Endemic areas that involve national or local borders present an important challenge to the success of elimination of onchocerciasis; such cross-border endemic foci require special attention to ensure that programme activities are unified. I...
Abdul-Samid Al-Kubati,Charles D Mackenzie,Daniel Boakye et al.
Abdul-Samid Al-Kubati et al.
The onchocerciasis focus in Yemen has been known for many years as an endemic area with unique characteristics, notably the atypical and most severe form of onchodermatitis, known as sowda or reactive onchodermatitis (ROD). The national eff...
Alternative treatment strategies to accelerate the elimination of onchocerciasis [0.03%]
替代治疗策略可加速盘尾丝虫病的消除工作
Michel Boussinesq,Grace Fobi,Annette C Kuesel
Michel Boussinesq
The use of alternative (or complementary) treatment strategies (ATSs) i.e. differing from annual community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) is required in some African foci to eliminate onchocerciasis by 2025. ATSs include vector c...
Onchocerciasis: shifting the target from control to elimination requires a new first-step-elimination mapping [0.03%]
从控制转向消除丝虫病需要新的第一步消除制图法
Maria P Rebollo,Honorat Zoure,Kisito Ogoussan et al.
Maria P Rebollo et al.
The meaning of 'mapping' in relation to onchocerciasis has changed at least three times over the past 50 years as the programmatic goals and the assessment tools have changed. With the current goal being global elimination of Onchocerca vol...
Operationalization of the test and not treat strategy to accelerate the elimination of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis in Central Africa [0.03%]
中非加速消除盘尾丝虫病和淋巴丝虫病的“检测不治疗”策略操作化研究
Joseph Kamgno,Hugues C Nana-Djeunga,Sébastien D Pion et al.
Joseph Kamgno et al.
After 30 years of treatment with Mectizan (ivermectin), cutaneous and ocular complications of Onchocerca volvulus infection are now scarce in endemic communities. Indeed, transmission has been interrupted and the O. volvulus- associated dis...
The role of the NGDO Coordination Group for the Elimination of Onchocerciasis [0.03%]
非政府发展组织协调机构消除河盲症的作用
Elizabeth Elhassan,Yaobi Zhang,Simon Bush et al.
Elizabeth Elhassan et al.
The NGDO Coordination Group for the Control of Onchocerciasis was launched in 1992, and with the paradigm shift from control of disease to elimination of onchocerciasis transmission, the Group shifted its orientation to that new paradigm in...
Transitioning from river blindness control to elimination: steps toward stopping treatment [0.03%]
从河盲症控制转向消除：停止治疗的步骤
Paul T Cantey,Sharon L Roy,Daniel Boakye et al.
Paul T Cantey et al.
The transition from onchocerciasis control to elimination requires country programmes to rethink their approach to a variety of activities as they move from addressing morbidity to addressing transmission of the parasite. Although the 2016 ...
Emily Griswold,Thomas Unnasch,Mark Eberhard et al.
Emily Griswold et al.
National onchocerciasis elimination committees (NOECs) serve to help ministries of health complete the pathway to successful verification of elimination of onchocerciasis (river blindness), as outlined in the 2016 World Health Organization ...
Thomas R Unnasch,Allison Golden,Vitaliano Cama et al.
Thomas R Unnasch et al.
In the past few years, efforts to eliminate onchocerciasis from Africa have intensified. These efforts are primarily based on the mass distribution of the anti-helminthic drug Mectizan™ (ivermectin). This program has led to the development...
After 70 years of fighting an age-old scourge, onchocerciasis in Uganda, the end is in sight [0.03%]
经过70年的不懈努力 控制盘尾丝虫病的尽头就在眼前——乌干达案例研究
Moses N Katabarwa,Thomson Lakwo,Peace Habomugisha et al.
Moses N Katabarwa et al.
Onchocerciasis causes severe itching, serious skin disease and ocular damage leading to visual impairment or permanent blindness. It is associated with hanging groin, epilepsy, Nakalanga dwarfism and, most recently, nodding disease. This di...