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Imo State University Owerri, PMB 2000, Owerri, Nigeria.
Infect Dis Poverty. 2019 Jul 15;8(1):52. doi: 10.1186/s40249-019-0558-0.
A recent article "Is onchocerciasis elimination in Africa feasible by 2025: a perspective based on lessons learnt from the African control programmes" in Infectious Diseases of Poverty claimed that undue influence on African programs by concepts developed by the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program of the Americas (OEPA) is detrimental to stopping mass drug administration (MDA) in Africa. This claim is made despite a record year for MDA stoppage in four African countries of > 3.5 million treatments in 2018, far exceeding any past OEPA or African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) stop MDA success.
一篇最近的文章《在非洲 2025 年消灭盘尾丝虫病是否可行:基于美洲盘尾丝虫病控制规划所获经验的观点》在《贫困所致传染病》杂志上声称,由于受到美洲盘尾丝虫病消除规划(OEPA)制定的理念的不当影响,非洲方案受到影响,这不利于在非洲停止大规模药物治疗(MDA)。尽管在 2018 年,四个非洲国家创下了 MDA 停止治疗的记录,超过了过去任何一次 OEPA 或非洲盘尾丝虫病控制规划(APOC)停止 MDA 的成功,这一说法仍然存在。