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Uganda: New Study Highlights Need to Continue Fight Against River Blindness
ASTMH, 20 May 2013
Researchers report onchocerciasis (river blindness) could make a comeback in Northwestern Uganda if annual drug distributions to fight the disease are stopped. The study, conducted… Read more »
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East Africa: Long-Term Mass Drug Treatment Can Eliminate River Blindness - Study
ASTMH, 20 May 2013
New research provides the first evidence in East Africa that long-term community-based drug treatment alone can interrupt transmission of onchocerciasis, a parasitic disease… Read more »
Africa: New Studies Report on River Blindness
Findings from two new studies on river blindness in Sudan and Uganda offer public health officials evidence to shape strategies to fight the debilitating parasitic disease.
Documents
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21 May 2013
Interruption of Onchocerca volvulus Transmission in the Abu Hamed Focus, Sudan
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- The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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Human onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is a parasitic disease caused by the nematode Onchocerca volvulus, which is transmitted by black ... see more »
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21 May 2013
Transmission of Onchocerciasis in Northwestern Uganda
- Publisher:
- The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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The objective of the study was to determine whether annual ivermectin treatment in the Nyagak-Bondoonchocerciasis focus could safely be withdrawn. ... see more »
