African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control 1995-2015: Updated Health Impact Estimates Based on New Disability Weights

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Coffeng, Luc E ^a   Stolk, Wilma A ^a   Zouré, Honorat G M ^b   Veerman, J Lennert ^a,c   Agblewonu, Koffi B ^b   Murdoch, Michele E ^d   Noma, Mounkaila ^b   Fobi, Grace ^b   Richardus, Jan Hendrik ^a   Bundy, Donald A P ^e   Habbema, Dik ^a   de Vlas, Sake J ^a   Amazigo, Uche V ^f  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control   (Burkina Faso)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d WATFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e WORLD BANK   (United States)

^f Independent Consultant   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; DEFORMITY; DISABILITY; DISEASE CONTROL; EPILEPSY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PATHOGEN LOAD; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; PROCEDURES; VISION DISORDERS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HUMANS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRURITUS; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 84903477530     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002759     Document Type: Article

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