Treating River Blindness and Other Neglected Tropical Diseases
Treating River Blindness and Other Neglected Tropical Diseases
In the villages of Senegal and Mali, and across a large area of rural Africa, 100 million people are no longer at risk of contracting River Blindness.
Onchocerciasis - World Health Organization (WHO)
Onchocerciasis – or “river blindness” – is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus. It is transmitted through ...
Onchocerciasis - Neglected Tropical Disease Program
Onchocerciasis (or river blindness) is an eye and skin infection caused by the parasitic worm, Onchocerca volvulus, which is transmitted by the ...
Onchocerciasis (river blindness) - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO recommends treating onchocerciasis with ivermectin at least once yearly for 10 to 15 years. Where O. volvulus co-exists with Loa loa, treatment strategies ...
Ending neglect, ending disease: River blindness in West Africa
They are currently writing up their dossier for WHO to verify that onchocerciasis transmission has indeed been eliminated. Several other ...
Onchocerciasis / River Blindness | CDC Yellow Book 2024
General assistance with the diagnosis or treatment of onchocerciasis can be obtained by contacting CDC's Parasitic Diseases Branch ([email protected]; 404-718- ...
THE NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES: CURRENT ... - NCBI
(The Onchocerciasis Control Project [OCP] was launched in 1974.) In the 1980s it was discovered that an annual dose of Mectizan (ivermectin), although it does ...
River Blindness - The Task Force for Global Health
River Blindness, officially called onchocerciasis, is an infection that is transmitted through the bites of infected blackflies. This neglected tropical disease ...
Is it possible to eliminate onchocerciasis (river blindness) in Africa?
In 1975, however, ivermectin was developed and it was soon acknowledged as the most successful in the treatment of river blindness. The treatment with ...
Elimination of transmission of onchocerciasis (river blindness) with ...
Reporting 15–19 years of ivermectin mass drug administration (22·7 [17·2 to 28·2]) and biannual treatment (43·3 [27·2 to 59·3]) were positively ...
About Onchocerciasis | Filarial Worms - CDC
Onchocerciasis is considered a neglected tropical disease (NTD) because it inflicts tremendous disability and illness among the affected ...
Onchocerciasis - "River Blindness" - PAHO/WHO
As a result of a regional initiative, only about 28,200 people are still in need of continual treatment in Brazil and Venezuela (Yanomami indigenous population) ...
Progress in the Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
The best way to prevent river blindness is to avoid being bitten by black flies. Another is to proactively treat everyone in a community with Mectizan, to ...
Modelling the elimination of river blindness using long-term ... - NCBI
15+ years of ivermectin treatment drove infection prevalence to zero in areas of Mali & Senegal. •. Data-driven model projections are used to evaluate the risk ...
Fighting the neglected tropical disease: Cameroon's battle against ...
The government is also partnering with organizations like the Global Institute for Disease Elimination to accelerate treatment for river ...
River blindness: causes, symptoms and treatment - Sightsavers
We distribute medicine to treat and prevent the condition alongside another disease called lymphatic filariasis. These two neglected tropical diseases often ...
Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) Treatment & Management
Ivermectin is considered to be the drug of choice as a microfilaricidal agent. ... Repeated dosing at intervals of 3–12 months is recommended for ...
Onchocerciasis: Current knowledge and future goals - Frontiers
Ivermectin (IVM), the first-line option according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a safe and efficacious anthelmintic drug that acts ...
River blindness | Diseases - Medicines Development for Global Health
The current standard treatment for river blindness is an anti-parasitic medicine called ivermectin. It has been generously donated by Merck & Co., Inc. (MSD ...
Onchocerciasis - Drugs & Diagnostics for Tropical Diseases
Onchocerciasis control and elimination programs rely on annual mass drug administration (MDA) programs with the deworming drug ivermectin that operate on an ...