The Positive Influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas Has Had on Africa Programs

Overview

Journal Infect Dis Poverty

Publisher Biomed Central

Date 2019 Jul 16

PMID 31303175

Citations 2

Authors

Frank O Richards

B E B Nwoke

Isam Zarroug

Edridah Tukahebwa

Nebiyu Negussu

T B Higazi

David Oguttu

Zerihun Tadesse

Emmanuel Miri

Nabil Aziz

Peace Habomugisha

Moses Katabarwa

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Abstract

A recent article "Is onchocerciasis elimination in Africa feasible by 2025: a perspective based on lessons learnt from the African control programmes" in Infectious Diseases of Poverty claimed that undue influence on African programs by concepts developed by the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program of the Americas (OEPA) is detrimental to stopping mass drug administration (MDA) in Africa. This claim is made despite a record year for MDA stoppage in four African countries of > 3.5 million treatments in 2018, far exceeding any past OEPA or African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) stop MDA success.

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