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- Onchocerciasis - World Health Organization (WHO)
Onchocerciasis – or “river blindness” – is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus It is transmitted through the bites of infected blackflies (Simulium spp ) that breed in fast-flowing rivers and streams, mostly in remote villages located near fertile land where people rely on agriculture
- Onchocerciasis (river blindness) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Onchocerciasis – or “river blindness” – is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus transmitted by repeated bites of infected blackflies (Simulium spp ) These blackflies breed along fast-flowing rivers and streams, close to remote villages located near fertile land where people rely on agriculture
- Onchocerciasis (river blindness) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Although most onchocerciasis occurs in sub-Saharan Africa, the infection also occurs in Yemen and two out of six original endemic countries in Latin America (the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Brazil) In the Africa Region, the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP) operated from 1974 to 2002
- Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases - World Health Organization (WHO)
In the 1970s, the Onchocerciasis Control Progamme in West Africa (OCP) achieved vector control by weekly aerial spraying of insecticides over fast-flowing rivers and streams It took more than 14 years to break the life-cycle of the parasite through aerial spraying, combined from 1989 with treatment of eligible populations with ivermectin
- WHO verifies Niger as the first country in the African Region to . . .
Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is a parasitic disease and is the second leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide, after trachoma It is transmitted to humans through the bites of infective black flies, primarily found in riverine areas
- Verifying the elimination of onchocerciasis - World Health Organization . . .
Certification of onchocerciasis elimination is the official recognition by WHO of a country’s onchocerciasis-free status WHO has developed a framework for the control, elimination and eradication of NTDs that outlines a standardized process for reviewing and confirming the achievement of the NTD road map targets
- Onchocerciasis (river blindness) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Onchocerciasis – or “river blindness” – is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus transmitted by repeated bites of infected blackflies (Simulium spp )
- The Global Onchocerciasis Network for Elimination (GONE): working . . .
More than 150 onchocerciasis partners, including national onchocerciasis coordinators from health ministries in endemic countries, national onchocerciasis elimination committee chairs, experts, researchers, nongovernmental organizations, the donor community and civil society gathered on 1 and 2 November 2023 in Mbour, Senegal, for the first meeting of the new Global Onchocerciasis Elimination
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