The positive influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas has had on Africa programs

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...

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Autores principales: Richards, Frank O., Nwoke, B. E. B., Zarroug, Isam, Tukahebwa, Edridah, Negussu, Nebiyu, Higazi, T. B., Oguttu, David, Tadesse, Zerihun, Miri, Emmanuel, Aziz, Nabil, Habomugisha, Peace, Katabarwa, Moses
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6628490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31303175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-019-0558-0
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author Richards, Frank O.
Nwoke, B. E. B.
Zarroug, Isam
Tukahebwa, Edridah
Negussu, Nebiyu
Higazi, T. B.
Oguttu, David
Tadesse, Zerihun
Miri, Emmanuel
Aziz, Nabil
Habomugisha, Peace
Katabarwa, Moses
author_facet Richards, Frank O.
Nwoke, B. E. B.
Zarroug, Isam
Tukahebwa, Edridah
Negussu, Nebiyu
Higazi, T. B.
Oguttu, David
Tadesse, Zerihun
Miri, Emmanuel
Aziz, Nabil
Habomugisha, Peace
Katabarwa, Moses
author_sort Richards, Frank O.
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description 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. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s40249-019-0558-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-66284902019-07-23 The positive influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas has had on Africa programs Richards, Frank O. Nwoke, B. E. B. Zarroug, Isam Tukahebwa, Edridah Negussu, Nebiyu Higazi, T. B. Oguttu, David Tadesse, Zerihun Miri, Emmanuel Aziz, Nabil Habomugisha, Peace Katabarwa, Moses Infect Dis Poverty Commentary 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. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s40249-019-0558-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6628490/ /pubmed/31303175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-019-0558-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Richards, Frank O.
Nwoke, B. E. B.
Zarroug, Isam
Tukahebwa, Edridah
Negussu, Nebiyu
Higazi, T. B.
Oguttu, David
Tadesse, Zerihun
Miri, Emmanuel
Aziz, Nabil
Habomugisha, Peace
Katabarwa, Moses
The positive influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas has had on Africa programs
title The positive influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas has had on Africa programs
title_full The positive influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas has had on Africa programs
title_fullStr The positive influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas has had on Africa programs
title_full_unstemmed The positive influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas has had on Africa programs
title_short The positive influence the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas has had on Africa programs
title_sort positive influence the onchocerciasis elimination program for the americas has had on africa programs
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6628490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31303175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-019-0558-0
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