Control, Elimination, and Eradication of River Blindness: Scenarios, Timelines, and Ivermectin Treatment Needs in Africa. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015; 9: e0003664. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003664 PMID: 25860569Kim YE, Remme JH, Steinmann P, Stolk WA, Roungou JB, et al. (2015) Control,...
Editorial: Malaria: control vs elimination vs eradication.The author reflects on the eradication of malaria in the U.S. He mentions that artemisinin, an antimalarial drug discovered in 1970s, is effective in reducing mortality. He states that some countries have not yet started to develop ...
Presents a letter to the editor regarding the place of leprosy in the control-elimination-eradication spectrum, previously published in the "Bulletin of th... Awofeso,Niyi - 《Bulletin of the World Health Organization》 被引量: 0发表: 2005年 Global Leprosy, Current Status and a Future Outloo...
The economics of malaria control and elimination: a systematic review This paper reviews the existing literature on the economic and financial cost and return of malaria control, elimination and eradication. METHODS: A review of articles that were published on or before September 2014 on the cost ...
In January 2012, WHO published a roadmap setting targets for the prevention, control, elimination and eradication of all the NTDs; setting 6 targets for the elimination of 5 NTDs by 2015, and a further 10 targets by 2020, either globally or in selected geographical areas, for 9 NTDs. Since...
LCNTDR undertakes cutting-edge research to build the evidence base around the design, implementation and evaluation of neglected tropical disease prevention, control, elimination and eradication programmes. LCNTDR was launched in 2013 with the aim of providing focused operational and research support for...
We describe early approaches to malaria epidemiology in Venezuela and how this country developed an efficient control program and an approach to eradication.Arnoldo Gabaldón was a key policy maker during this development process. He directed malaria control in Venezuela from the late 1930s to the ...
The principles of disease elimination and eradication. Bull World Health Organ. 1998;76 Suppl 2:22–5. PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Prost A, Prod’hon J. [Parasitological diagnosis of onchocerciasis. A critical review of present methods (author’s transl)]. Med Trop Mars. 1978;38...
This paper assesses the economy-wide impacts of the efforts toward malaria control and elimination in Kenya, referring to the objective of the Kenya Malaria Strategy (KMS) (2019–2023). Further, it measures the benefits of declining malaria incidences and deaths, while on the other hand, it ...
The objective of these activities can extend beyond disease control, as defined by the 1997 Dahlem Workshop on the Eradication of Infectious Diseases, to reach objectives of elimination and eradication (Dowdle, 1998; Box 1). Box 1 Hierarchy of public health efforts targeting infectious diseases ...