Lessons from lymphatic filariasis elimination and the challenges of post-elimination surveillance in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was launched in response to the call proposed at the 50th World Health Assembly. The goal of the GPELF is to ensure that all the countries where the disease is endemic would have been transmission-free or would have entered post-intervention mass drug administration (MDA) surveillance by 2020. However, several countries are still not on track to discontinue MDA as planned. Thus, issues remain regarding the achievement of stated goals and how to effectively monitor the disease in the post-control and post-elimination phases.

Main text

China was once a lymphatic filariasis (LF) endemic country with heavy disease burden. There were three milestones in the LF control phase of China, including: the proposal

SUBMITTER: Fang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6685173 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature