Journal
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages i60-i70Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/inthealth/ihx048
Keywords
Disease elimination; Ethiopia; Guatemala; Nigeria; Onchocerciasis; Uganda
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- Alwaleed Philanthropies
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
- Carter Center, Lions Clubs International Foundation
- Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, MSD
- Merck Co., Inc.
- Kenilworth, NJ, USA
- Mectizan Donation Program
- Carlos Slim Foundation
- US Agency for International Development (USAID)
- USAID [AID-OAA-A-11-00048]
- MoHs of Ethiopia, Guatemala, Nigeria
- MoHs of Ethiopia, Guatemala, Uganda
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National onchocerciasis elimination committees (NOECs) serve to help ministries of health complete the pathway to successful verification of elimination of onchocerciasis (river blindness), as outlined in the 2016 World Health Organization guidelines. These guidelines, however, only take effect when the country believes it has reached a point that elimination can be demonstrated, and do not address the preceding milestones. Therefore, NOECs can be of great help with guiding and tailoring earlier planning, programming and assessments to empower national programs to aggressively move toward their countries' elimination goals. In this article, we provide suggestions for organizing NOECs and examples of four such committees that have successfully operated in Africa and the Americas.
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