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Frank O Richards1, B E B Nwoke2, Isam Zarroug3
1The Carter Center, One Copenhill Avenue, 453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA, 30307, USA. frank.richards@cartercenter.org.
Abstract:
A recent article "Is onchocerciasis elimination in Africa feasible by 2025: a perspective based on lessons learnt from the African control programmes" in Infectious Diseases of Poverty claimed that undue influence on African programs by concepts developed by the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program of the Americas (OEPA) is detrimental to stopping mass drug administration (MDA) in Africa. This claim is made despite a record year for MDA stoppage in four African countries of > 3.5 million treatments in 2018, far exceeding any past OEPA or African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) stop MDA success.
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