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1. Control of onchocerciasis (river blindness) in West Africa: ecology, risk and resettlement

Author

Norgbey, Segbedzi W.

Subjects
West Africa -- Diseases, Onchocerciasis -- Control, Environmental issues, International relations, Control, Diseases
Abstract

Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in West Africa has been described as the most successful disease control program of its type. This article examines the potential risk of resurgence of onchocerciasis [...]

Published
1997

2. BUG OF THE MONTH

Subjects
West Africa -- Diseases, Central Africa -- Diseases, Flies as carriers of disease -- Evaluation, Helminths -- Care and treatment, Diptera -- Evaluation, Insects as carriers of disease -- Evaluation -- Care and treatment, Worms, Intestinal and parasitic -- Care and treatment, Geography, Diseases, Evaluation, Care and treatment
Abstract

Mango fly Chrysops dimidiata Veterans of travel in the lush equatorial forests of western and central Africa have been known to become particularly unnerved at the appearance of mango flies. [...]

Published
1999

3. Fly control yields fewer trachoma cases

Subjects
West Africa -- Diseases, Trachoma -- Prevention, Housefly -- Diseases, Science and technology, Diseases, Prevention
Abstract

A concerted effort to kill off houseflies and their cousins, bazaar flies, in two West African villages has reduced the incidence of trachoma, a bacterial disease that causes blindness. The [...]

Published
1999

4. River blindness: a gamble pays off

Author

Walsh, John

Subjects
West Africa -- Diseases, Onchocerciasis Control Program -- Analysis, World Health Organization -- Political activity, Herbicides -- Usage -- Analysis, Onchocerciasis -- Prevention -- Analysis, Science and technology, Political activity, Diseases, Prevention, Analysis, Usage
Abstract

River Blindness: A Gamble Pays Off As a small group of farmers gather around the irrigation engineer from AID outside the village of Naye in northeastern Senegal, a middle-aged man [...]

Published
1986

5. Polio Cases In West Africa May Thwart W.H.O. Plan

Author

Altman, Lawrence K.

Subjects
Company business planning, World Health Organization -- Health policy -- Planning -- Political aspects -- Religious aspects, Poliomyelitis vaccine -- Political aspects -- Health aspects -- Religious aspects -- Statistics -- Planning, Poliomyelitis -- Demographic aspects -- Statistics -- Prevention -- Health aspects -- Political aspects -- Religious aspects, West Africa -- Diseases, Nigeria -- Health policy -- Political aspects
Abstract

Polio has spread to two more countries in West Africa, further jeopardizing the World Health Organization's goal of wiping out the crippling disease by next year, an official of the […]

Published
2004

6. Aerial operations

Author

Zurcher, Jean Louis

Subjects
Onchocerciasis Control Program -- Management, Pests -- Control, Fly control, West Africa -- Diseases, Company business management
Abstract

Tuesday, 7 a.m.: simultaneous take-off of the fixed-wing aircraft and the helicopters assigned to the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP) from air bases at Bobo Dioulasso in Burkina Faso and Kara […]

Published
1985

7. Decline and fall of a disease ..

Subjects
Fly control, Onchocerciasis, West Africa -- Diseases
Abstract

After ten years of a hard-fought campaign, the Onchocerciasis Control Programme is able to claim success in West Africa. In terms of lands freed from the scourge of river blindness […]

Published
1985

8. River blindness: a battle fought and won

Subjects
Onchocerciasis -- Prevention, West Africa -- Diseases
Abstract

On this page--before onchocerciasis was controlled--the blackfly pest drove villagers away from the fertile and well-watered lands bordering the West African rivers. A high proportion of them were blind. Scratching […]

Published
1985

9. A winning combination

Author

Walsh, John

Subjects
West Africa -- Diseases, Onchocerciasis Control Program -- International aspects, Onchocerciasis -- Prevention, Science and technology, Diseases, Prevention, International aspects
Abstract

A Winning Combination Why has the Onchocerciasis Control Program (OCP) worked when so many other health projects in Africa have gone awry? The explanation starts with OCP's field operations. To [...]

Published
1986

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