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Progress towards onchocerciasis elimination in the participating countries of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control: epidemiological evaluation results

BACKGROUND: The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) was created in 1995 to establish community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTi) in order to control onchocerciasis as a public health problem in 20 African countries that had 80 % of the global disease burden. When research sho...

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Autores principales: Tekle, Afework H., Zouré, Honorath G. M., Noma, Mounkaila, Boussinesq, Michel, Coffeng, Luc E., Stolk, Wilma A., Remme, Jan H. F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27349645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0160-7