Weekly epidemiological record
18 July 1997
No 72 (29): 215 – 218
Progress in eliminating onchocerciasis in the WHO Region of the Americas: Report from the InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis in Oaxaca, Mexico 1996
The sixth meeting of the IACO reported encouraging results of community-based treatment with the oral microfilaricidal drug ivermectin (Mectizan®), provided free of charge by its manufacturer, which have lent new credibility to efforts to eliminate onchocerciasis as a public health problem in the Americas by the year 2007. (WHO, 1997)
This report is provided in English and French.
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