Weekly epidemiological record
12 November 1999
No 74 (45): 377 – 380
Report from the eighth InterAmerican conference on onchocerciasis, Caracas, Venezuela
Summarizes advances in treatment and assessment during 1998 in the 6 onchocerciasis-endemic countries in the Americas (supplemented by reports received since the meeting took place) and a report from the 8th IACO meeting with the theme of “Strategies for attaining high coverage and sustainability in Mectizan® treatment programmes in the Americas”. (WHO, 1999)
This report is provided in English and French.
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