Filter
249
Text search:
Onchocerciasis
Featured
Recommendations
30
New Publications
67
Language
Document type
No document type
126
Studies & Reports
51
Guidelines
33
Strategic & Response Plan
19
Manuals
8
Fact sheets
5
Infographics
2
Training Material
1
Dashboards/Maps
1
Situation Updates
1
Resource Platforms
1
Online Courses
1
Countries / Regions
Global
28
Liberia
18
Uganda
15
Ethiopia
11
Sierra Leone
10
Africa
10
Ghana
7
Nigeria
5
Tanzania
5
Malawi
5
Latin America and the Carribbean
5
Cameroon
3
South Sudan
3
Rwanda
3
Mozambique
3
East and Southern Africa
3
West and Central Africa
3
Middle East and North Africa
3
Guinea
2
Congo, Democratic Republic of
2
Nepal
2
Lesotho
2
Yemen
2
Senegal
1
India
1
Cambodia
1
Colombia
1
South–East Asia Region
1
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
1
Western and Central Europe
1
Asia
1
Russia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
97
Clinical Guidelines
31
Public Health
27
Key Resources
6
Capacity Building
5
Pharmacy & Technologies
3
Toolboxes
NTDs
68
Disability
11
Rapid Response
8
Pharmacy
6
Planetary Health
5
Mental Health
4
COVID-19
4
NCDs
4
Ebola
3
Caregiver
3
Natural Hazards
2
HIV
2
Global Health Education
2
Social Ethics
2
Cholera
1
Polio
1
TB
1
The skin of a patient is the first and most visible structure of the body that any health-care worker encounters during the course of an examination. To the patient, it is also highly visible, and any disease that affects it is noticeable and will have an impact on personal and social well-being. Th
...
Guideline ‒ Alternative mass drug administration regimens to eliminate lymphatic filariasis
recommended
Lymphatic filariasis is a vector-borne neglected tropical disease that causes damage of the lymphatic system and can lead to lymphoedema (elephantiasis) and hydrocele in infected individuals. The global baseline estimate of persons affected by lymphatic filariasis is 25 million men with hydrocele an
...
Coordinated Use of Anthelminthic Drugs in Control Interventions: a Manual for Health Professionals and Programme Managers
Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 19, No. 9, September 2013
Tis first edition describes the standard operating procedures for health products for NTDs amenable to preventive chemotherapy and the medicines donated to treat them. These include albendazole for lymphatic filariasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases; azithromycin for trachoma and yaws; diethylca
...
Les présentes lignes directrices ont pour objet de préparer les pays d’endémie à arrêter l’AMM à l’issue du traitement, à passer à la surveillance post-thérapeutique ainsi qu’à confirmer l’interruption de la transmission à l’issue de la phase 2 et à débuter la surveillance p
...
This manual summarizes key issues related to the safety of NTD medicines and their administration, with a focus on essential medicines used in mass drug administration (MDA), also called preventive chemotherapy. It can be used as a standalone reference manual, but is intended to be used in conjuncti
...
This toolkit for integrated vector management (IVM) is designed to help national and regional programme managers coordinate across sectors to design and run large IVM programmes.
The toolkit provides the technical detail required to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate an IVM approach. IVM can be
...
The objective of this concept note and the framework it outlines is the elimination of a group of CDs and the negative health effects they generate, which together create a tangible burden on affected individuals, their families and communities, and on health care systems throughout the Region. Thou
...
Background: The human helminth infections include ascariasis, trichuriasis, hookworm infections, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis (LF) and onchocerciasis. It is estimated that almost 2 billion people worldwide are infected with helminths. Whils
...
BMJ Open 2021;11:e042279. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042279. Neglected tropical diseases tend to cluster in the same poor populations, and to make progress with their control, they will have to be dealt with in an integrated manner. Peptide microarrays may be a solution to tese problems, where diagnos
...
Meeting of the Neglected Tropical Diseases Strategic and Technical Advisory
Group’s Monitoring and Evaluation Subgroup on Disease-specific Indicators
Community Health Workers in Sub Saharan Africa
recommended
A booklet on how CHWs were addressing eye health across Africa based on desk research and a survey in 23 countries
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug approved for the treatment of parasitic infections, including strongyloidiasis and onchocerciasis in humans. There is a reported increase in the use of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 by th
...
