(Video: Five Billion Mectizan Treatments – The Americas) Os quatro primeiros países a eliminar a oncocercose com Mectizan estão nas Américas: Colômbia, Equador,
(Video: Five Billion Mectizan Treatments – The Americas) Los primeros cuatro países en eliminar la oncocercosis con Mectizan se encuentran en las Américas: Colombia,
Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico were the first four countries in the world to eliminate river blindness with Mectizan, freeing more than 450,000 people
Despite the ongoing civil war creating extremely difficult challenges to the NTD program, Yemen successfully eliminated LF as a public health problem in 2019.
The integrated transmission assessment survey (iTAS), a modification of the transmission assessment survey for LF, offers an opportunity to co-evaluate transmission levels of both
Weekly epidemiological record 10 October 2024 No. 41, 2025, 100, 461–467 Report from the InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis (IACO) 2024 Contains information about ivermectin
Weekly epidemiological record 10 October 2025 No 41, 2025, 100, 451–468 Onchocerciasis, or river blindness, remains a major public health challenge despite decades of
National Onchocerciasis Elimination Committees (NOECs) play a vital role in national neglected tropical disease (NTD) programs. The purpose of this handbook is to provide
The eighth meeting of the WHO Onchocerciasis Technical Advisory Subgroup (OTS) was held on 9–12 December 2024 in Toledo, Spain. The meeting commenced with
On January 30, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Niger has been verified for eliminating the transmission of onchocerciasis, commonly known as
Niger becomes the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate the transmission of onchocerciasis DECATUR, Ga., Jan. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On 30
This ancient disease has a huge economic impact in endemic areas, including substantially reducing productivity and household welfare and increasing health-related expenditures. The World
Weekly epidemiological record 11 October 2024 No 41, 2024, 99, 577–590 At least 249.5 million people in 28 countries require interventions to eliminate onchocerciasis.
Weekly epidemiological record 27 September 2024 No 39, 2024, 99, 545–564 Report from the InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis (IACO) 2023 Contains information about ivermectin
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 18(7): e0012312. Published July 22, 2024. Authors: Natalie V. S. Vinkeles Melchers, Sibabi Agoro, Kwamy Togbey, Koffi Padjoudoum, Ibrahim Gado
(An excerpt from the Mectizan Donation Program Annual Highlights for 2023) The Shire River borders Malawi and Mozambique; the two countries must work together to
Overview More than 150 onchocerciasis partners, including national onchocerciasis coordinators from health ministries of endemic and formerly endemic countries, national onchocerciasis elimination committee chairs,
Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030 (the NTD Road Map) sets explicit targets
BMJ Global Health 2023;8:A39. Published December 22, 2023. Authors: André Domche, Hugues C. Nana Djeunga, Philippe B. Nwane, Guy R. Njitchouang, Betrand Nono Fesuh,
