Weekly epidemiological record
30 September 2022
No 39, 2022, 97, 481–492
Advances in reaching the last endemic communities of the South Focus in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect administrative processes and resources for MDA in both the Brazil Amazonas Focus and the Venezuela South Focus. Amazonas failed to reach its semiannual treatment goal in both rounds in 2021 (72% of its eligible population during the first and 64% during the second), and the South Focus failed in the first treatment round (47%) but succeeded in the second (88%).
Update to the WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Record recording the progress made in the Americas toward elimination of onchocerciasis. (WHO, 2022)
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