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Guidelines for stopping mass drug administration and verifying elimination of human onchocerciasis: criteria and procedures

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Following the publication of Guidelines on certification of elimination of human onchocerciasis in 2001 by the World Health Organization (WHO), these are the first evidence-based guidelines developed by NTD Department according to the international standards. They provide a set of recommendations th... more

Monitoring and epidemiological assessment of mass drug administration in global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis: a manual for national elimination programmes

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2011) C_WHO

Effective monitoring, epidemiological assessment and evaluation are necessary to achieve the aim of interrupting LF transmission. This manual is designed to ensure that national elimination programmes have available the best information on methodologies and procedures for monitoring MDA, appropriate... more

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Report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2023) CC

The thirty-seventh meeting of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 January 2023 and chaired by Ms Aishath Rishmee (Maldives). The Committee adopted its agenda and agreed its programme of work. In his opening remarks, the Director-General emphasized the ... more

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Training in monitoring and epidemiological assessment of mass drug administration for eliminating lymphatic filariasis: learners’ guide

World Health Organization WHO; Institutional research information sharing iris (2013) C_WHO

Training in monitoring and epidemiological assessment of mass drug administration for eliminating lymphatic filariasis: learners’ guide. World Health Organization.

Diagnostic test for lymphatic filariasis to support decisions for stopping triple-therapy mass drug administration: target product profile

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

TARGET PRODUCT PROFILE

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Assessing the feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths through mass drug administration: The DeWorm3 cluster randomized trial protocol

Ásbjörnsdóttir K.H., Ajjampur S.S.R., Anderson R.M. et al (2018) C2

Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) affect 1.45 billion people worldwide, and high intensity infections are associated with anemia, undernutrition and impaired cognition, particularly among children. Mathematical models suggest it may be possible to interrupt the transmission of STH in a community by e... more

Medidas generales para la prevención del COVID-19 a tener en cuenta en las actividades económicas, sociales y sectores de la administración publica, que se desarrollan en los entornos

Ministerio de Salud, Colombia (2020) CC

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The impact of residual infections on Anopheles-transmitted Wuchereria bancrofti after multiple rounds of mass drug administration

D. K. de Souza; Ansumana, R.; Sessay, S.; et al. Parasites & Vectors (2015) CC

Many countries have made significant progress in the implementation of World Health Organization recommended preventive chemotherapy strategy, to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF). However, pertinent challenges such as the existence of areas of residual infections in disease endemic districts pose... more

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Onchocercose - Lignes directrices pour l’arrêt de l’administration de masse de médicaments et la vérification de l’élimination de l’onchocercose humaine : critères et procédures

Organisation mondiale de la santé OMS (2017) C_WHO

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... more

Antimicrobials use, reistance and containment baseline survey (Ethiopia)

Drug Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia , et al. (2009) C1

Emergence of antimicrobial resistance is a result of the use, overuse and misuse of antibiotics both in humans and animals. In Ethiopia, there are indications on the misuse of antibiotics by health care providers’, unskilled practitioners, and drug consumers. These coupled with rapid spread of res... more