lymphatic filariasis
Can malaria vector control accelerate the interruption of lymphatic filariasis transmission in Africa; capturing a window of opportunity?
... Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was launched in 2000, and nearly all endemic countries in the Americas, Eastern Mediterranean and Asia-Pacific regions have now initiated the WHO recommended mass drug ...
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Lessons from lymphatic filariasis elimination and the challenges of post-elimination surveillance in China
... Main text: China was once a lymphatic filariasis (LF) endemic country with heavy disease burden. There were three milestones in the LF control phase of China, including: the proposal that the major focus of ...
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Potential factors influencing lymphatic filariasis transmission in “hotspot” and “control” areas in Ghana: the importance of vectors
... Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) aims at interrupting lymphatic filariasis transmis- ...of lymphatic filaria- sis in a given ...of lymphatic filariasis in hotspots ...
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Lymphatic filariasis in Brazil: epidemiological situation and outlook for elimination
... of lymphatic filariasis by the year 2020, most of the endemic countries identified have established programmes to meet this ...National Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Plan was drawn up by ...
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Albendazole for lymphatic filariasis (Review)
... for lymphatic filariasis (Cartel 1990; Coutinho 1994; Cao ...and lymphatic filariasis coexist, because DEC can cause eye damage if given to individuals with ...
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Impact of the Lymphatic Filariasis Control Program towards elimination of filariasis in Vanuatu, 1997-2006
... LF: Lymphatic filariasis; MDA: Mass drug administration; Mf: Microfilariae; PacELF: Pacific Program to Eliminate LF; TAS: Transmission assessment survey; VBDCU: Malaria and Other Vector Borne Disease ...
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LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS IN MEDAK DISTRICT: TELANGANA, INDIA
... Lymphatic filariasis has been identified as a potentially rooted out disease [4,6] and the 50th World Health Assembly 1997 passed a resolution that 'elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a ...
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Preventive chemotherapy reverses covert, lymphatic associated tissue change in young people with lymphatic filariasis in Myanmar
... Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a major cause of disability and the most widespread of the neglected tropical dis- eases ...human lymphatic system where they typi- cally reside in worm nests established ...
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The Prevalence of Lymphatic Filariasis in Elementary School Children Living in Endemic Areas: A Baseline Survey Prior to Mass Drug Administration in Pekalongan District-Indonesia
... WHO launched Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) in 2000. The GPELF targeted the elimination of LF as public health problem by 2020 through mass drug ad- ministration (MDA) (9). From ...
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Environmental suitability for lymphatic filariasis in Nigeria
... LF: Lymphatic filariasis; LGA: Local government area; LST: Land surface temperature; MARS: Multivariate additive regression splines; MaxEnt: Maximum entropy ecological niche models; MDA: Mass drug ...
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Progress on elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Sierra Leone
... FTS: Filariasis test strip; ICT: Immunochromatographic test; IRS: Indoor residual spraying; ITN: Insecticidal treated nets; LF: Lymphatic filariasis; LLIN: Long-lasting insecticidal nets; MDA: Mass ...
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Chiluria in a lymphatic filariasis endemic area
... Results: 75 individuals were studied. The majority were females with an average age of 45 years residing in the Met‑ ropolitan Region of Recife. The mean time between the beginning of the presentation of chyluria and the ...
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Albendazole for lymphatic filariasis (Review)
... This review was designed to assess the effects of albendazole alone or in combination with the currently recommended antifilarial drugs, ivermectin or DEC. Although the review has considered the effects of albendazole ...
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Cessation of Mass Drug Administration for Lymphatic Filariasis in Zanzibar in 2006: Was Transmission Interrupted?
... Lymphatic filariasis was endemic on both islands before MDA commenced in 2001 as de- scribed in detailed investigations carried out many years prior the initiation of MDA [5, 9, ...
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The burden of mental health in lymphatic filariasis.
... The latest GBD study [1] attributes mental and be- havioural disorders as 7.4 % in 2010 of the total GBD of which 2.5 % was due to major depressive disorders and 1.1 % to anxiety disorders. In these calculations it is ...
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Ethnopharmacological approaches to treat lymphatic filariasis
... Lymphatic filariasis is one of the oldest and debilitating health problems for the human ...controlling lymphatic filariasis, but causes lots of side ...
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Lymphatic filariasis elimination: residual endemnicity, spatial clustering and future surveillance using the new Filariasis CELISA diagnostic assay
... Joseph, H., Clough, A., Maiava, F and Melrose, W. Exploratory Study Investigating Factors Influencing Mass Drug Administration (MDA) Compliance for Lymphatic Filariasis in Samoa, Manuscript in preparation ...
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Overview of PacELF - the Pacific programme for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis
... Dr. Kazuyo Ichimori from WHO and Dr. Tony Stew- art from SPC subsequently met in Port Vila, Vanuatu, to discuss how best to enact the resolutions of the WHA in the region and the regional program initiatives discussed in ...
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Lymphatic filariasis patient identification in a large urban area of Tanzania: An application of a community led Mhealth system
... Lymphatic filariasis (LF) can cause disabling conditions in infected patients including lymphoedema-elephantiasis (LE) and hydrocoele. Identifying the number and locations of these patients is the first ...
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LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS: AN OVERVIEW
... Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a tropical disease caused by infection with the parasitic filarial worms: Wuchereria bancrofti , Brugia malayi, and Brugia timori ...the lymphatic system, arms, legs, and ...
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