Transitioning from river blindness control to elimination: Steps toward stopping treatment

dc.contributor.authorCantey, P.T.
dc.contributor.authorRoy, S.L.
dc.contributor.authorBoakye, D.
dc.contributor.authorMwingira, U.
dc.contributor.authorOttesen, E.A.
dc.contributor.authorHopkins, A.D.
dc.contributor.authorSodahlon, Y.K.
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-05T10:41:53Z
dc.date.available2019-02-05T10:41:53Z
dc.date.issued2018-03
dc.description.abstractThe transition from onchocerciasis control to elimination requires country programmes to rethink their approach to a variety of activities as they move from addressing morbidity to addressing transmission of the parasite. Although the 2016 WHO guidelines provide extensive recommendations, it was beyond the scope of the document to provide guidance on all aspects of the transition. This paper will discuss some of the important issues that programmes are grappling with as they transition to elimination and provide some potential approaches that programmes can use to address them. Although there are some data to support some aspects of the suggested approaches, operational research will be needed to generate data to support these approaches further and to determine how programmes could best tailor them to their own unique epidemiological challenges. Good communication between the national programmes and the broader global programme will facilitate the clear articulation of programmatic challenges and the development of the evidence to support programme decision-making. © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.identifier.otherVolume 10, Issue suppl_1, Pages i7–i13
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihx049
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/27246
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Healthen_US
dc.subjectEliminationen_US
dc.subjectMonitoring and Evaluationen_US
dc.subjectOnchocerciasisen_US
dc.titleTransitioning from river blindness control to elimination: Steps toward stopping treatmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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