From 'control to elimination': A strategic change to win the end game

International Health

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 304-305

  Hopkins, Adrian Dennis ^a  

^a Mectizan Donation Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Onchocerciasis

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

AFRICA; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTION CONTROL; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PATHOGEN CLEARANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM COST EFFECTIVENESS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCREENING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE ERADICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE ERADICATION; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; ONCHOCERCIASIS;

EID: 84940647610     PISSN: 18763413     EISSN: 18763405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/inthealth/ihv056     Document Type: Note

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