Strategies to control Yaws and other Neglected Tropical Diseases in the South Pacific Islands / Estrategias para el control del Pián y otras Enfermedades Tropicales Desatendidas en Islas del Pacífico Sur [PDF]
, 2012 Every year, through mass drug administration (MDA), hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people receive a single annual dose of one or more drugs to eliminate certain parasitic worm or bacterial infections.
Mitjà Villar, Oriol
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Reduction in acute filariasis morbidity during a mass drug administration trial to eliminate lymphatic filariasis in Papua New Guinea. [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND: Acute painful swelling of the extremities and scrotum are debilitating clinical manifestations of Wuchereria bancrofti infection. The ongoing global program to eliminate filariasis using mass drug administration is expected to decrease this ...
Alexander Neal D. E. +43 more
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How effective is integrated vector management against malaria and lymphatic filariasis where the diseases are transmitted by the same vector? [PDF]
, 2014 The opportunity to integrate vector management across multiple vector-borne diseases is particularly plausible for malaria and lymphatic filariasis (LF) control where both diseases are transmitted by the same vector.
Stone, C. +11 more
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Developing eradication investment cases for onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, and human African trypanosomiasis : rationale and main challenges [PDF]
, 2013 An EIC is essentially an economic composite assessment in the broader meaning of economics, addressing thus all three fundamental economics questions. An EIC in fact answers: 1) the ‘‘What’’ question, that compares remaining in control mode versus moving
Steinmann, Peter +8 more
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Lymphatic Filariasis Control in Tanzania: Effect of Six Rounds of Mass Drug Administration with Ivermectin and Albendazole on Infection and Transmission. [PDF]
, 2013 Control of lymphatic filariasis (LF) in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa is based on annual mass drug administration (MDA) with a combination of ivermectin and albendazole, in order to interrupt transmission. We present findings from a detailed study
Simonsen, Paul E +17 more
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Socio-cultural aspects of lymphatic filariasis and the role of communities in its control in Ghana [PDF]
, 2000 Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) is one of the worlds most debilitating and disfiguring tropical diseases. The World Health Organization estimates that there are about one billion people at risk in about 80 countries worldwide.
Gyapong, Margaret
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A review of factors that influence individual compliance with mass drug administration for elimination of lymphatic filariasis. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: The success of programs to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) depends in large part on their ability to achieve and sustain high levels of compliance with mass drug administration (MDA). This paper reports results from a comprehensive review
Fischer, Peter U +8 more
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The roadmap towards elimination of lymphatic filariasis by 2030: insights from quantitative and mathematical modelling [PDF]
, 2019 The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis was launched in 2000 to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem by 1) interrupting transmission through mass drug administration (MDA) and 2) offering basic care to those ...
Ntd Modelling Consortium Lymphatic Filariasis Group +3 more
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What is needed to eradicate lymphatic filariasis? : A model-based assessment on the impact of scaling up mass drug administration programs [PDF]
, 2015 Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a neglected tropical disease for which more than a billion people in 73 countries are thought to be at-risk. At a global level, the efforts against LF are designed as an elimination program. However, current efforts appear to
Peter Steinmann +14 more
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Modelling the health impact and cost-effectiveness of lymphatic filariasis eradication under varying levels of mass drug administration scale-up and geographic coverage [PDF]
, 2016 Background: A global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (GPELF) is underway, yet two key programmatic features are currently still lacking: (1) the extension of efforts to all lymphatic filariasis (LF) endemic countries, and (2) the expansion of
Steinmann, P. +17 more
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