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Releve Epidemiologique Hebdomadaire May 2001
Topics: Africa; Dracunculiasis; Humans; Population Surveillance
PubMed: 11957334
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The American Journal of Tropical... Aug 2010This report describes how Nigeria, a country that at one time had the highest number of cases of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) in the world, reduced the number of...
This report describes how Nigeria, a country that at one time had the highest number of cases of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) in the world, reduced the number of cases from more than 653,000 in 1988 to zero in 2009, despite numerous challenges. Village-based volunteers formed the foundation of the program, which used health education, cloth filters, vector control, advocacy for safe water, voluntary isolation of patients, and monitored program interventions and cases reported monthly. Other factors in the program's success were strong governmental support, advocacy by a former head of state of Nigeria, technical and financial assistance by The Carter Center, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization, and many other partners and donors. The estimated cost of the Nigerian program during 1988-2009 is $37.5 million, not including funding for water supply projects or salaries of Nigerian governmental workers.
Topics: Anthelmintics; Communicable Disease Control; Disease Outbreaks; Dracunculiasis; Environmental Health; Filtration; Health Education; Humans; National Health Programs; Nigeria; Time Factors; Water; Water Supply
PubMed: 20682859
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Revue Medicale Suisse Oct 2019
Topics: Dracunculiasis; Humans
PubMed: 31663710
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The Journal of Parasitology Jun 1984
Topics: Animals; Arkansas; Carnivora; Dracunculiasis; Female; Male; Mink; Otters; Raccoons
PubMed: 6238141
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Lancet (London, England) Sep 1995In 1986 the World Health Organization targeted dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease), which seriously impairs socioeconomic development in 16 African countries, India,...
In 1986 the World Health Organization targeted dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease), which seriously impairs socioeconomic development in 16 African countries, India, Pakistan, and Yemen, to be eradicated globally. The target date for eradication by the end of 1995 was established in 1991. Pakistan eradicated dracunculiasis from the country in October, 1993, after a national campaign which began in 1987 with a nationwide village-by-village search for cases. The infection, which is transmitted by drinking water from ponds containing infected water fleas, was eradicated by using health education, cloth filters, and the cyclopsicide, temephos; and in the later stages, by case containment. Methods pioneered in Pakistan's National Guinea Worm Eradication Program are now being applied in remaining endemic countries.
Topics: Communicable Disease Control; Disease Outbreaks; Dracunculiasis; Health Education; Humans; Pakistan
PubMed: 7651010
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The American Journal of Tropical... Jul 2006
Topics: Animals; Communicable Disease Control; Dracunculiasis; Dracunculus Nematode; Health Education; Humans; National Health Programs
PubMed: 16837698
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.75.1.0750001 -
Lancet (London, England) Mar 2019
Topics: Animals; Disease Eradication; Dracunculiasis; Dracunculus Nematode; Epidemiological Monitoring; Humans; Incidence; Neglected Diseases
PubMed: 30938302
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The American Journal of Tropical... Sep 1997The idea of a global campaign to eradicate dracunculiasis was first proposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1980, during the advent of the...
The idea of a global campaign to eradicate dracunculiasis was first proposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1980, during the advent of the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (IDWSSD) (1981-1990). In 1981, the Steering Committee of the IDWSSD adopted eradication of dracunculiasis as a subgoal of their efforts to provide safe drinking water to unserved populations. In 1988, African ministers of health voted to eradicate dracunculiasis by the end of 1995, a target date that was endorsed by UNICEF in 1989 and the World Health Assembly in 1991. Although nine of 18 endemic countries, India (1980), Pakistan (1987), Nigeria and Cameroon (1988), Ghana (1989), and Mauritania, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Togo (1990) completed national searches for cases of the disease, only four countries, India (1983), Pakistan (1988), Ghana (1989), and Nigeria (1989), actually started eradication programs during the 1980s. The remaining 14 endemic countries began their eradication programs between 1991 and 1995. At the end of 1996, dracunculiasis had not been entirely eradicated, but its incidence had been reduced by 95%, from an estimated 3.2 million cases in 1986 to 152,805 cases in 1996. Sudan reported a total of 118,578 (78%) of the 152,805 cases of dracunculiasis reported during 1996. Insufficient funding and the civil war in Sudan continue to be the major obstacles to overcome. A primary aim of the eradication program in 1997 is to seek to ensure that all cases of dracunculiasis outside of Sudan are contained. In Sudan the challenge is to pursue all appropriate control measures in all accessible areas as vigorously as possible until political circumstances allow access to all of the remaining affected areas.
Topics: Africa; Dracunculiasis; Global Health; Humans; Incidence; India
PubMed: 9311632
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1997.57.252 -
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly... Nov 2018Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis, is acquired by drinking water containing copepods (water fleas) infected with its...
Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), caused by the parasite Dracunculus medinensis, is acquired by drinking water containing copepods (water fleas) infected with its larvae. The worm typically emerges through the skin on a lower limb approximately 1 year after infection, causing pain and disability (1). The worldwide eradication campaign began at CDC in 1980. In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for dracunculiasis elimination, and the global Guinea Worm Eradication Program (GWEP), led by the Carter Center in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), CDC, and others, began assisting ministries of health in countries with dracunculiasis. There is no vaccine or medicine to treat the disease; the GWEP relies on case containment* to prevent water contamination and other interventions to prevent infection, including health education, water filtration, chemical treatment of water, and provision of safe drinking water (1,2). In 1986, an estimated 3.5 million cases occurred each year in 20 African and Asian countries (3,4). This report, based on updated health ministry data (3), describes progress during January 2017-June 2018 and updates previous reports (1,4). In 2017, 30 cases were reported from Chad and Ethiopia, and 855 infected animals (mostly dogs) were reported from Chad, Ethiopia, and Mali, compared with 25 cases and 1,049 animal infections reported in 2016. During January-June 2018, the number of cases declined to three cases each in Chad and South Sudan and one in Angola, with 709 infected animals reported, compared with eight cases and 547 animal infections during the same period of 2017. With only five affected countries, the eradication goal is near, but is challenged by civil unrest, insecurity, and lingering epidemiologic and zoologic questions.
Topics: Disease Eradication; Dracunculiasis; Global Health; Humans
PubMed: 30439874
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International Journal of Zoonoses Jun 1985The study of biochemical changes induced by dracunculiasis show that hyperproteinaemia is present even in patients three months post infection. The hyperproteinaemia is...
The study of biochemical changes induced by dracunculiasis show that hyperproteinaemia is present even in patients three months post infection. The hyperproteinaemia is due to increase in serum globulin content of patients.
Topics: Blood Protein Disorders; Blood Proteins; Dracunculiasis; Humans; Nigeria; Serum Albumin; Serum Globulins
PubMed: 2934344
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