Weekly epidemiological record
6 July 2001
No. 76 (27), 205 – 210
Report from the tenth InterAmerican conference on onchocerciasis, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Contains a report from the 10th IACO meeting with the central theme of “New challenges for the regional initiative”. Topics addressed included the need for new and alternative diagnostic techniques for monitoring incidence of disease in human populations, the logistics needed to apply PCR in the field to measure infection rates in Simulium blackflies, the need to better monitor the impact of the program on ocular morbidity, and the critical role of good data collection, timely data analysis and information exchange. (WHO, 2001)
This report is provided in English and French.
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