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Onchocerciasis items, 2018 to date
Please find below items on river blindness to appear on www.childsurvival.net in 2018 to date. Items 1 and 2 are of great relevance. Because the blackfly has a flight range of hundreds of miles, a continental effort is indispensable to continental elimination. Failures in single countries pose risks to regional elimination.
The typical pattern for mass drug administration has, since the 1990s, been national administration of donated ivermectin to stop transmission. Items 13 and 15-18 present Ugandan variations from the classical single disease strategy.
Ivermectin, though safe in most settings, cannot be used without precautions in areas endemic for Loa loa. Item 7 refers.
Item 10 compares moxidectin to ivermectin in a three country trial. The Lancet Infectious Diseases has recently published a discussion on the use of moxidectin against onchocerciasis and other diseases, accessible on the Internet at https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(18)30270-6/fulltext
Good reading.
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http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7298 |
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http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7865
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38 |
http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7254 |
35 |
http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7256 |
32 |
http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7268 |
32 |
http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7269 |
32 |
http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7271 |
31 |
http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7255 |
29 |
http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7257 |
29 |
10. Single dose moxidectin versus ivermectin for Onchocerca volvulus infection in Ghana, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a randomised, controlled, double-blind phase 3 trial. http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7259 |
28 |
11. Modelling the health and economic impacts of the elimination of river blindness (onchocerciasis) in Africa. http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7267 |
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12. Progress towards eliminating onchocerciasis in the WHO Region of the Americas: elimination of transmission in the north-east focus of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7261 |
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13. Programmatic factors associated with the limited impact of Community-Directed Treatment with Ivermectin to control Onchocerciasis in three drainage basins of South West Cameroon. http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7261 |
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14. Nodding syndrome (NS) and Onchocerca volvulus (OV) in Northern Uganda http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7871 |
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15. For as long as Necessary: Examining 30 years of MSD Focus on achieving Elimination of Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7278 |
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16. Modelling the impact of larviciding on the population dynamics and biting rates of Simulium damnosum (s.l.): implications for vector control as a complementary strategy for onchocerciasis elimination in Africa. http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7253 |
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17. "Cross-border collaboration in onchocerciasis elimination in Uganda: progress, challenges and opportunities from 2008 to 2013". http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7258 |
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18. Onchocerciasis control in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): challenges in a post-war environment. http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7252 |
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19. The interruption of Onchocerca volvulus and Wuchereria bancrofti transmission by integrated chemotherapy in the Obongi focus, North Western Uganda. http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=7260 |
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