The Mectizan Donation Program in 2024 LEGACY—Honoring the visionaries to secure the future. This annual report publication summarizes the accomplishments of the Mectizan Donation
This year we’re celebrating an amazing 5 billion Mectizan treatments donated to end river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. A milestone this momentous merits a
This year we’re celebrating 5 billion Mectizan treatments donated to end river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. The bold donation of Mectizan “as much as
This year we’re celebrating 5 billion Mectizan treatments donated for countries fighting river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. In 1987 former Merck CEO Roy Vagelos
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
Contains: Summary of preventive chemotherapy (PC) in 2023 WHO’s NTD medicine donation programme Establishment of the Global Coordination and Stewardship Committee (GCSC) Establishment of
Timor-Leste eliminates lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem DECATUR, Ga., Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Mectizan Donation Program applauds Timor-Leste for
Timor-Leste Eliminates LF Using Triple Therapy Congratulations to the people of Timor-Leste, the first country to achieve elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) using the
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 4 October 2024 No 40, 2024, 99, 565–576 This annual report from the World Health Organization provides the following information: Achievements
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) In December 2023, a landmark $777 million pledge was announced for neglected tropical diseases
(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
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 78, Issue Supplement_2, Pages S93–S100. Published April 25, 2024. Authors: Klodeta Kura, Wilma A Stolk, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Benjamin S Collyer,
Overview More than 150 onchocerciasis partners, including national onchocerciasis coordinators from health ministries of endemic and formerly endemic countries, national onchocerciasis elimination committee chairs,
