Mectizan® procurement and delivery for onchocerciasis mass drug administration programmes

Acta Tropica

Volumn 120, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Ogoussan, Kisito T ^a   Hopkins, Adrian ^a  

^a Mectizan Donation Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivery; Mectizan; Neglected tropical disease; Onchocerciasis; Procurement

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ESSENTIAL DRUG; IVERMECTIN;

DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG PRESCRIBING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISK; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITIC DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LOA LOA; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS;

DRUG INDUSTRY; FILARICIDES; GIFT GIVING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; IVERMECTIN; NEGLECTED DISEASES; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 80054030370     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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