Effects of Five Years of Treatment of Onchocerciasis with Ivermectin under Community Guidelines in Resurgent Areas of Burkina Faso: A before-and-after Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Almost the entire country of Burkina Faso was endemic to onchocerciasis. Onchocerciasis control efforts thus brought the prevalence of O. volvulus to a level where the disease was no longer a public health problem in 2002. A resurgence of onchocerciasis cases has been observed in two regions (Cascades and the Southwest) located around several river basins in 2010-2011. In accordance with WHO guidelines for the management of resurgent cases, community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) was implemented in the affected areas. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of this intervention on parasitological indices of onchocerciasis, depending on the distance between villages and rivers.

Methodology

We conducted a paired pre-post study using agg

SUBMITTER: Ouedraogo MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11435634 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature