elimination programme
Adaptation of a malaria surveillance system for use in a visceral leishmaniasis elimination programme
... the elimination programme, the District Health Information System (DHIS2), 14 has the ability to capture a range of health- related information, but lacks the speci fi c ability to capture entomological ...
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Verification of clinically diagnosed cases during malaria elimination programme in Guizhou Province of China
... an elimination pro- gramme is very different from a control ...an elimination programme, it is defined as a person in whom, regardless of the presence or absence of clin- ical symptoms, malaria ...
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Survey for asymptomatic malaria cases in low transmission settings of Iran under elimination programme
... the elimination programme in any malaria en- demic ...successful elimination, detection of all parasite carriers by active case detection and then treatment of all cases must be considered to ...
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Importance of active case detection in a malaria elimination programme
... Sri Lanka embarked on a malaria elimination programme in 2009 with the aim of eliminating Plasmodium falciparum by end 2012, and Plasmodium vivax by end 2014 [9]. Tropical and Environmental Disease and ...
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Assessment of the impact of the malaria elimination programme on the burden of disease morbidity in endemic areas of Iran
... malaria elimination programme com- menced in 2010, a variable was introduced to differenti- ate the time before the implementation of elimination programme, which routine control activities ...
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Qualitative analysis of the impact of a lymphatic filariasis elimination programme using mass drug administration on Misima Island, Papua New Guinea
... countrywide programme to eliminate lymphatic ...elimination programme. Although interim evaluation indicated that the programme has been parasitologically successful, an appreciation that ...
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Visceral leishmaniasis cyclical trends in Bihar, India – implications for the elimination programme
... VL elimination in Bihar through the National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP) in the 1940s (Thakur, ...“Kala-azar Elimination Programme”, IRS was restarted to reach the elimination ...
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Standardisation and commercialisation of a filarial antibody test for use in the global lymphatic filariasis elimination programme
... in elimination programmes can sometimes be ...disease elimination because of the low cost for large-scale testing, the usfulness of a standardised and regulated test is far more practical (Bergquist, ...
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Anti malarial seroprevalence assessment during an elimination programme in Chabahar District, south eastern Iran
... In Iran, a national strategic plan for the elimination of malaria was approved by High Council for Health and Food Security in 2010 to stop local transmission by 2025. In this regard, Iran achieved a substantial ...
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Approaches being used in the national schistosomiasis elimination programme in China: a review
... schistosomiasis elimination in 2015, with aims to achieve transmission interruption by 2020 and achieve disease elimination by 2025 in the ...and elimination of schistosomiasis in ...
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Topographical distribution of anopheline mosquitoes in an area under elimination programme in the south of Iran
... Vector control is the main way to reduce malaria trans- mission at the community level and in many parts of the world it is considered as the most effective measure for eradicating malaria. It has been reported to be the ...
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Shrinking the malaria map in China: measuring the progress of the National Malaria Elimination Programme
... Malaria Elimination Net- work [39], the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance [40], Chinese aid programmes for African countries and China’s Belt and Road Initiative will also be critical for the control of ...
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Baseline spatial distribution of malaria prior to an elimination programme in Vanuatu
... with similar strategies between zones of varying ende- micity. As the prevalence declines remaining transmis- sion is increasingly restricted to specific geographical foci and more precision in the application of ...
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Impact of three rounds of mass drug administration on lymphatic filariasis in areas previously treated for onchocerciasis in Sierra Leone.
... as Programme coverage, is the treatment coverage reported using total population of IU as denominator and is calculated as the number of people who were reported to have ingested the medicines for LF divided by ...
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Burden of leprosy in Malawi: community camp-based cross-sectional study
... 2000. Elimination was defined as reducing the global preva- lence of the disease to less than 1 case per 10,000 popu- ...Leprosy Elimination Programme achieved the WHO defined leprosy elimin- ation ...
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Household knowledge and practices concerning malaria and indoor residual spraying in an endemic area earmarked for malaria elimination in Iran
... malaria elimination programmes, and improved commu- nity knowledge of malaria control methods can promote preventive practices against malaria [14, ...malaria elimination programme in Iran, this ...
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Setting a Nigeria national malaria operational research agenda: the process
... Malaria Elimination Programme ’ s (NMEP) effort at setting a MOR agenda, the Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (NFELTP) in collaboration with NMEP conducted preliminary ...
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Elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem from Tonga
... Tonga had a history of a high prevalence of microfilarae- mia and chronic disease. The hydrocele prevalence of 55% recorded in 1976 was among the highest observed in LF endemic areas (Table 2). Effective intervention ...
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Including refugees in disease elimination: challenges observed from a sleeping sickness programme in Uganda
... global elimination programmes is import- ant as conflict-affected regions are often the places where disease is most intractable ...for elimination of sleeping sickness (a fatal parasitic infection also ...
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Establishing a China malaria diagnosis reference laboratory network for malaria elimination
... an elimination programme is defined as the presence of parasites in the blood regardless of the presence or absence of clinical symptoms [4,19,20], to improve the basic capability for malaria diagnosis, it ...
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