Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program
<p>Mapping and monitoring for a lymphatic filariasis elimination program: a systematic review</p>
... the program to produce LF distribution maps 80,82 with areas having Ag rates >1% and recommended inclusion of albendazole with the monotherapy of ivermectin to aid elimination of LF in these ...the ...
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How elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem in the Kingdom of Cambodia was achieved
... National Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis made excellent progress in the goal towards elimination due to strong collaboration between ministries, intensive supervision by national ...
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Fifteen years of programme implementation for the elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Ghana: Impact of MDA on immunoparasitological indicators
... Another challenge encountered in the early years of the programme implementation was inade- quate sample sizes. In some communities, sample sizes as low as 22 individuals were used to assess prevalence levels, leading to ...
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Elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem from the Cook Islands
... Goals and objectives of programme to eliminate LF In March 1999, at meetings of the Pacific Regional Minis- ters convened by the Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) of the WHO and by the Secretariat of the Pacific ...
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Elimination of lymphatic filariasis: current perspectives on mass drug administration
... LF elimination program has had a significant impact on not only LF elimination efforts but also on other helminth infections, there are challenges that need to be ...LF elimination goal can be ...
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Coverage and compliance of mass drug administration for elimination of lymphatic filariasis in endemic areas of Bidar district, Karnataka
... Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2000 with the goal of eliminating LF as a public health problem by the year ...
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Overview of PacELF - the Pacific programme for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis
... regional program initiatives discussed in Palau in March ...of lymphatic filariasis, together with staff from SPC, WHO, and other institutions work- ing in the field of elimination of ...
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Sharma
... National Filariasis Control Program (NFCP) in 1955 and it became a part of the National Vector Borne Disease Control Program (NVBDCP) in ...envisages elimination of lymphatic ...
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Lessons from lymphatic filariasis elimination and the challenges of post-elimination surveillance in China
... chronic filariasis patients in previously endemic ...“Working program for the morbidity management and disability prevention of chronic filariasis patients” was issued by the MOH; the dynamic digital ...
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The prevalence of lymphatic filariasis infection and disease following six rounds of mass drug administration in Mandalay Region, Myanmar
... National Program to Eliminate LF through the annual mass drug administration (MDA) of two de-worming medications: albendazole and diethylcarbama- zine to all endemic ...the elimination program is ...
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Panika
... 7 Lymphatic filariasis was targeted for elimination in 1997 when the World Health Assembly called on all endemic countries to ‘strengthen efforts towards eliminating’ the disease and requested the ...
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Elimination of lymphatic filariasis in the Gambia.
... Control Program (NMCP) reports of ITNs distributed to health facilities and implementation partners and household survey data, Flaxman and co-workers[12] calculated insecticidal net ownership cov- erage for 44 ...
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Elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem in Niue under PacELF, 1999 2016
... the elimination of LF as a public health ...the elimination of LF as a public health problem was given to Niue by the WHO Director-General and the WHO WPRO Regional Dir- ector during the 67th session of the ...
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The history of the elimination of lymphatic filariasis in China
... Through repeated blood surveys and treatments, it is pos- sible to reduce the MF rate of the population to a low level, even to less than 1%, but it needs to be carried out over a rather long time period. The reasons are ...
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Impact of the Lymphatic Filariasis Control Program towards elimination of filariasis in Vanuatu, 1997-2006
... MDA is the recommended strategy required to suppress Mf numbers and transmission of the parasite over the life of the adult parasites, approximately 5 years [6]. The A survey in 1997/1998 demonstrated that LF prevalence ...
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Loa loa vectors Chrysops spp : perspectives on research, distribution, bionomics, and implications for elimination of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis
... for elimination and which now includes treating low transmission areas, previously described as “hypo-endemic” and not in- cluded in the APOC programme as the disease was not considered to be a major public health ...
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A practical approach for scaling up the alternative strategy for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Loa loa endemic countries developing an action plan
... implementation of biannual albendazole MDA. This initial model/approach is focussed on developing a national filarial database, reviewing the co-endemicity, mapping needs and treatment requirements at IU-level as a ...
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A practical strategy for responding to a case of lymphatic filariasis post-elimination in Pacific Islands
... the elimination programme by the WHO Collaborative Centre for Control of Lymphatic Filariasis and Soil Transmitted Helminths based at James Cook University, ...the elimination programme to ...
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Developing the first national database and map of lymphatic filariasis clinical cases in Bangladesh: Another step closer to the elimination goals
... Importantly, the data provide a good foundation to develop post-elimination surveillance strategies to ensure the numbers progressively decline over time, and no new cases emerge. The programme is working with the ...
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Can malaria vector control accelerate the interruption of lymphatic filariasis transmission in Africa; capturing a window of opportunity?
... The African continent has a large burden of LF, which is caused by the parasite W. bancrofti and predominantly transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes in rural areas and by Culex in urban and coastal areas of East Africa ...
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