Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases in Burundi: Partnerships, Achievements, Challenges, and Lessons Learned after Four Years of Programme Implementation

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Ndayishimiye, Onésime ^a   Ortu, Giuseppina ^b   Soares Magalhaes, Ricardo J ^c   Clements, Archie ^c   Willems, Johan ^d   Whitton, Jane ^b   Lancaster, Warren ^e   Hopkins, Adrian ^f   Fenwick, Alan ^b  

^a Programme National Integre de Lutte Contre les Maladies Tropicales Negligees et la Cecite   (Burundi)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d CBM Regional Office for Central Africa   (Kenya)

^e END Fund Geneva Global   (United Kingdom)

^f Mectizan Donation Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AZITHROMYCIN; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BURUNDI; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE CONTROL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFECTION RISK; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRACHOMA; TROPICAL DISEASE; INFECTION CONTROL; NEGLECTED DISEASES; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

BURUNDI; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84901799014     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002684     Document Type: Article

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