Progress towards onchocerciasis elimination in Cote d'Ivoire: A geospatial modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Côte d'Ivoire has had 45 years of intervention for onchocerciasis by vector control (from 1975 to 1991), ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA) (from 1992 to 1994) and community directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTi) from 1995 to the present. We modeled onchocerciasis endemicity during two time periods that correspond to the scale up of vector control and ivermectin distribution, respectively. This analysis illustrates progress towards elimination during these periods, and it has identified potential hotspots areas that are at risk for ongoing transmission.

Methods and findings

The analysis used Ministry of Health skin snip microfilaria (MF) prevalence and intensity data collected between 1975 and 2016. Socio-demographic and environmental factors were incorp

SUBMITTER: Eneanya OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7875389 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature