Managing the Fight against Onchocerciasis in Africa: APOC Experience

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Fobi, Grace ^a   Yameogo, Laurent ^a   Noma, Mounkaila ^a   Aholou, Yaovi ^a   Koroma, Joseph B ^a   Zouré, Honorat M ^a   Ukety, Tony ^b   Lusamba Dikassa, Paul Samson ^a   Mwikisa, Chris ^a   Boakye, Daniel A ^a   Roungou, Jean Baptist ^a  

^a World Health Organization Ouagadougou   (Burkina Faso)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CONTROL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS CONTROL PROGRAM; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 84930659172     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003542     Document Type: Article

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