|
| |
| | [No title] |
 | | Onchocerciasis can be effectively treated with a medication called Mectizan®.7. | | | Session 2 (8:50 - 10:20am): Onchocerciasis and its socio-economic consequences Objectives: At the end of this session, the participants should be able to: 1. | | | Mectizan®: What it can and what it cannot do Any eligible individual who lives in an area infected with onchocerciasis - even if he or she is blind - should take Mectizan® once a year so as to eliminate onchocerciasis as a public health problem. |
|
http://www.trachomahki.org/Docs/englishpart2pc.doc
|
|
| |
| | Investigación en salud/Abril de 2004 |
| | Mazzotti encountered the same scepticism and arguments as Casis Sacre, namely, that microfilariae of O.volvulus are not found in the blood, and that in his case also the microfilariae had most probably been introduced into the CSF through contamination of the lumbar puncture needle from the skin. | | | The argument was that the microfilariae of O.volvulus are only found in the anterior ocular chamber, in the skin and in the lymphatic system; that they, in contrast to microfilariae of other pathogenic filariae, are not found in the blood; and that they are unable to penetrate the blood-brain barrier to damage brain structures. | | | The objective of this paper is to acknowledge the pioneering Mexican research, conducted decades ago on the relationship of Onchocerca filariasis with epilepsy, in the light of recent investigations. |
|
http://www.cucs.udg.mx/invsalud/abril2004/art3.html
|
|
| |
| | Filaria Journal Full text Impact of ivermectin on onchocerciasis transmission: assessing the empirical evidence that ... |
| | As far as elimination of onchocerciasis as a public health problem is concerned, annual treatment has been very effective and there appears to be no need for shorter treatment intervals. | | | The objective of eliminating onchocerciasis as a public health problem by annual ivermectin treatments – as long as it retains its effectiveness – seems therefore feasible. | | | From the point of view of morbidity control, the situation in the whole area is good, and onchocerciasis is no longer a public health problem. |
|
http://www.filariajournal.com/content/2/1/8
|
|
| |
| | [No title] |
| | Onchocerciasis patients are being we need to consolidate our achievements. | | | ment of Ghana is committed to integrating onchocerciasis As we begin to talk about resettlement, part of the control activities, both preventive and curative, into the issue that we must confront concems two potential kinds regional public health system. | | | In coopo ration gives us reason to pursue other challenges the working sessions, we will attempt to demonstrate how through regional cooperation and integration. |
|
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1995/11/01/000009265_3961214155351/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt
|
|
| |
| | Task Force: Mectizan Donation Program |
| | As with onchocerciasis, the drugs are given annually to treat lymphatic filariasis. | | | They concluded that in addition to being potent and effective, the drug is very safe; and therefore ideal for mass treatment in a community setting. | | | In 1988, The Mectizan® Donation Program was launched to oversee the donation and to ensure that the drug is distributed with good medical practice. |
|
http://www.taskforce.org/mechome.html
|
|
| |
| | eMedicine - Onchocerciasis : Article by Deborah Eezzuduemhoi, MD |
| | This remarkable public health accomplishment is of particular importance in that onchocerciasis eradication promoted significant socioeconomic development. | | | In 1919, Robles described in the French literature an anterior uveitis and keratitis associated with acute and chronic skin changes. | | | Identification of endemic areas, education of the populace, training of local health care officials, procurement of antifilarial drugs, and vector control create a coordinated effort to eliminate onchocerciasis. |
|
http://www.emedicine.com/oph/topic709.htm
|
|
| |
| | Nigerian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences - Vol. 3, No. 2 (2004) |
| | This method that identifies skin diseases due to Onchocerciasis could have some gender differences in communities where Onchocerciasis still constitute a public nuisance. | | | Rapid assessment procedure is the current method of assessing communities for mass scale treatment. | | | These factors were identified as being positive factors that could facilitate future compliance to drugs. |
|
http://www.ajol.info/viewarticle.php?id=16157
|
|
| |
| | eMJA: Stemming the tide of river blindness: the early years of ivermectin |
| | Although I must have learnt about onchocerciasis at medical school and during my ophthalmology training, it was such an esoteric tropical disease in small print that it had made no perceptible impact on me. | | | Liberian rubber tappers from one of the early onchocerciasis drug studies. | | | Wartime drug development led to the discovery of diethylcarbamazine (DEC) that would halt the progression of, and sometimes cure, filariasis. |
|
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/179_11_011203/tay10553_fm.html
|
|
| |
| | The Onchocerciasis (Riverblindness) Programs - Visionary Partnerships |
| | Two of the hallmarks of the success of the onchocerciasis programs have been the unusually effective collaboration through the establishment of wide-ranging, diverse partnerships and a comprehensive regional approach in addressing the disease. | | | The first is the elimination of onchocerciasis as a public health problem and as an obstacle to socioeconomic development throughout an eleven-country | | | Alleviate unbearable itching and eliminate unsightly skin disease throughout the nineteen countries; |
|
http://www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/english/find174.htm
|
|
| |
| | Disease fact sheet: Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) |
| | The objective of the programme is primarily to establish within a 12 to 15-year period an effective and self-sustainable drug distribution mechanism within the communities in the endemic areas. | | | Eventually, the transmitted worm larvae develop into adult worms and settle into fibrous nodules in the human body close to the surface of the skin or near the joints. | | | There are two main actions undertaken against onchocerciasis control: spraying of breeding sites in water of the blackflies with larvicides, and the treatment of patients with a drug (ivermectin) that kills the young worms. |
|
http://www.worldwaterday.org/2001/disease/oncho.html
|
|
| |
| | Onchocerciasis: Africa's victory over river blindness |
| | Onchocerciasis has been more than a health concern. | | | With donor assistance, it stimulated research into medicines and effective treatment programmes for those already infected with onchocerciasis. | | | As Dr. Samba and other observers have emphasized, one of the keys to the OCP's success was the participation of many different actors (see box). |
|
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol17no1/171heal1.htm
|
|
| |
| | Onchocerciasis |
| | Medical doctor using an ultrasound machine to examine a male patient for signs of nodules and worms. | | | This woman has leopard skin and onchocercal skin lesions on both legs. | | | Yanomami mother and her children waiting at the clinic for medical attention, especially for diagnosis and treatment of onchocerciasis |
|
http://www.icp.ucl.ac.be/~opperd/parasites/onch1.html
|
|
| |
| | Filaria Journal Full text Final report of the Conference on the eradicability of Onchocerciasis |
| | The use of ivermectin has given variable results: while ivermectin treatment has been effective in all endemic areas in controlling onchocerciasis as a public health problem, its potential for interrupting transmission is more promising in hypo- and mesoendemic areas. | | | The Conference recommended that where interruption of transmission is feasible and cost effective, programs should aim for that goal using all appropriate and available interventions so that the Onchocerca volvulus can eventually be eliminated and interventions halted. | | | Vector control has been effectively applied in the Onchocerciasis Control Program in West Africa (OCP) with remarkable results, interrupting transmission in most parts of the original Program area. |
|
http://www.filariajournal.com/content/2/1/2
|
|
| |
| | Onchocerciasis |
| | ONCHOCERCIASIS OR RIVER BLINDNESS: A TECHNICAL REVIEW FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND SCIENTISTS - The combined work of seven physicians who have committed much of their professional lives to investigating and, one day, eliminating onchocerciasis. | | | Post a question or comment on our Message Board | | | Onchocerciasis or River Blindness: A Technical Review for Health Professionals and... |
|
http://www.health-nexus.com/onchocerciasis.htm
|
|
| |
| | oncho |
| | The programs hope to eliminate onchocerciasis as a health problem within 15 years. | | | It is important, therefore, to continue the development of alternative drugs for the treatment of onchocerciasis. | | | However, a large multi-country study has recently shown that onchocercal skin disease imposes a grave burden and that its symptoms have important personal and psychosocial effects not only on the affected individuals, but also on their families and communities. |
|
http://www.austin.cc.tx.us/microbio/2993c/oncho.html
|
|
| |
| | Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) |
| | All medical information needs to be carefully reviewed with your health care provider. | | | DISCLAIMER: NOAH is an information guide only and cannot answer personal health-related or research questions. | | | NOAH > Infectious Diseases > Specific Infectious Diseases > Parasitic Infectious Diseases > Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) |
|
http://www.noah-health.org/en/infectious/diseases/parasit/river.html
|
|
| |
| | Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) |
| | His laboratory investigates how the body responds to ivermectin, the current drug of choice for treating the disease. | | | Onchocerciasis can be treated with medication (ivermectin), but yearly treatment is necessary throughout the theoretical lifespan of the adult parasite (up to 15 years). | | | Antibodies from these individuals are being used to identify molecules for use in a vaccine. |
|
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/newsroom/FocusOn/BugBorne01/onchoc.htm
|
|
| |
| | Identification of Paramyosin as a Binding Protein for Calgranulin C in Experimental Helminthic Keratitis -- Akpek et ... |
| | Elson, LH, Calvopina, MH, Paredes, WY, et al (1995) Immunity to onchocerciasis: putative immune persons produce a Th1-like response to. | | | (1996) Host-parasite interaction in human onchocerciasis: identification and sequence analysis of a novel human calgranulin Biochem Biophys Res Commun 221,454-458 | | | (1990) B cell responses to paramyosin: isotypic analysis and epitope mapping of filarial paramyosin in patients with onchocerciasis J Immunol 145,3917-3923 |
|
http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/full/43/8/2677
|
|
| |
| | Onchocerciasis - Talk Medical |
| | Since 1987, the drug ivermectin (brand name: Stromectol) has been provided by the manufacturer (Merck) free of charge to control programs for treating persons with onchocerciasis. | | | This method was used effectively to reduce the incidence of the disease in part of West Africa but is expensive. | | | The adult worms can live for up to 15 years in nodules beneath the skin and in the muscles of infected persons, where they produce millions of worm embryos (microfilariae) that invade the skin and other tissues including the eyes. |
|
http://www.talkmedical.com/medical-dictionary/10232/Onchocerciasis
|
|
| |
| | onchocerciasis |
| | Would you like to subscribe to our free monthly Newsletter ? | | | Onchocerciasis is an eye and skin disease caused by a worm (filaria) known scientifically as onchocerca volvulus. | | | The distribution of onchocerciasis is linked to the location of blackflies which are naturally found close to the fast-running streams and rivers in the inter-tropical zones. |
|
http://www.v2020.org/eye_disease/onchocerciasis.asp
|
|
| |
| | Onchocerciasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The drug paralyses the microfillariae and prevents them from causing itching. | | | There are various control programs that aim to stop onchocerciasis from being a public health problem. | | | The treatment for onchocerciasis is ivermectin (mectizan); infected people can be treated once every twelve months. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Onchocerciasis
|
|
| |
| | Onchocerciasis research - KIT Biomedical Research - KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) |
| | KIT Biomedical Research performs molecular biological research in the field of onchocerciasis. | | | This PCR can be used for the sensitive detection of Onchocerca volvulus in small skin snips taken from patients suspected for onchocerciasis. | | | This has led to the development of a diagnostic PCR and the detection of genetic variation using microsatellite PCR. |
|
http://www.kit.nl/biomedical_research/html/onchocerciasis.asp
|
|
| |
| | FindArticles search for "Onchocerciasis" |
| | The antiparasitic animal drug ivermectin was approved by FDA to treat two human parasitic diseases, strongyloidiasis and onchocerciasis. | | | The Onchocerciasis Control Program (OCP) is widely recognized to be a good example of a regional development program that has succeeded because of close... | | | Onchocerciasis: what it is and how we help to fight it in Africa |
|
http://www.findarticles.com/p/search?tb=art&qt=Onchocerciasis
|
|
| |
| | Helen Keller International, Onchocerciasis Program |
| | The purpose of the session was to plan and develop some micro programs on onchocerciasis control. | | | An evaluation on the impact of onchocerciasis IEC on the implementation of the community-directed Mectizan treatment and the Vitamin A distribution into CDTI activities was done by HKI through two consultants all public health epidemiologists Dr Niambele Issiaka and Dr Massitan Dembele. | | | After the Abidjan meeting in January 2002, the HKI-Mali office conducted meetings and working sessions, then established a Protocol of Agreement between HKI and the Ministry of Health, through the National Directorate of Health, for the implementation of all activities related to onchocerciasis. |
|
http://www.onchohki.org/ml.html
|
|
| |
| | Mectizan.org - Onchocerciasis Maps |
| | Recommendations for the treatment of onchocerciasis with Mectizan in areas co-endemic for Onchocerciasis and Loiasis | | | In these two regions, the burden of disease represents less than 1% of the global problem; however onchocerciasis remains a significant cause of morbidity. | | | The extent of overlap between LF and onchocerciasis withing these African countries is currently unknown. |
|
http://www.mectizan.org/maps.asp
|
|
| |
| | [No title] |
| | João is interested in modelling both onchocerciasis and schistosomiasis, and Sébastien is also interested in the epidemiology of Loa loa, its interaction with O. | | | The different arms of the work come together in the development of mathematical models of onchocerciasis and other helminth infections. | | | All this poses challenging problems for the development of mathematical frameworks for their population dynamics and the effect on these dynamics of control interventions. |
|
http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/pcphs/ide/eph_msc_modern1/people/m.basanez.html
|
|
| |
| | African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) |
| | The programme’s objectives were to eliminate the disease and thereby improve socioeconomic conditions for the millions of people living in the 11 nations covered by OCP activities, and leave the countries concerned in a position to ensure that the disease never returned to threaten their populations. | | | : Eliminate onchocerciasis as a public health problem throughout the entire continent where 99% of the world’s cases are found. | | | At least 15 million people are heavily infected and at risk of developing skin disease. |
|
http://www.apoc.bf/en
|
|
| |
| | The Global 2000 River Blindness Program of the Carter Center January 1998 |
| | Ecuador has returned to a policy of semi-annual treatments after recognition of new cases of onchocerciasis in children after the institution of annual treatment in 1996. | | | In 1996, 98% of all known high-risk communities (i.e., communities with hyperendemic onchocerciasis) in the Americas were treated with ivermectin. | | | Working groups at IACO further refined these draft criteria, which were then adopted during a plenary session. |
|
http://www.cartercenter.org/doc239.htm
|
|
| |
| | CEH No.38 Onchocerciasis: Impact of Interventions |
| | The possibility of eliminating onchocerciasis as a public health and socio-economic obstacle to development, is perhaps the first victory in sight for the ‘VISION 2020’ Global Initiative. | | | It can be safely stated today that the elimination of onchocerciasis as a public health problem is now within reach. | | | In that setting, with different and less ‘effective’ vector flies, the regular dosing of populations by means of ivermectin is likely to lead to complete interruption of transmission. |
|
http://www.jceh.co.uk/journal/38_1.asp
|
|
| |
| | Sight Savers International - Saving Sight - River Blindness |
| | People who suffer from it will experience skin conditions such as 'nodules' (bizarre protuberances) and terrible itching, causing them to scratch repeatedly. | | | As well as causing blindness, onchocerciasis also has several other, equally harmful, effects. | | | River Blindness is another name (coined by Sight Savers' founder Sir John Wilson) for a disease called onchocerciasis. |
|
http://www.sightsavers.org.uk/html/savingsight/treatments/river.htm
|
|
| |
| | DMOZ : Health : Conditions and Diseases : Infectious Diseases : Parasitic : Onchocerciasis |
| | Full text article on treatment of the disease, including the use of tetracyclines to treat the rickettsia-like endosymbiont (Wolbachia) bacteria in the worms. | | | DMOZ : Health : Conditions and Diseases : Infectious Diseases : Parasitic : Onchocerciasis | | | CDC Travelers' Health Information on Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) |
|
http://www.alternatywy.com/dmoz/index.php?c=Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Parasitic/Onchocerciasis
|
|
| |
| | Onchocerciasis project (ExploSys) |
| | Our work may contribute to improve the health of the people living in countries where onchocerciasis is endemic and hence to increase the developmental potential of these countries. | | | Now it is important to develop concepts by which these successes can be maintained. | | | In many of the countries where onchocerciasis is endemic, the disease has hampered the cultivation of fertile regions and, therefore, has been one of the most serious enemies for the socio-economic development in these countries. |
|
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/modeling/Mod_Oncho_Intro_en.html
|
|
| |
| | :: Xinhuanet - English :: |
| | The introduction of Mectazin drug for treatment has been of much help, he said. | | | Experts estimate that more than 120 million people around the world, mostly in Africa and Latin America, are at the risk of the disease. | | | River blindness, also known as onchocerciasis, is the world's second leading infectious cause of blindness. |
|
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/20/content_1535394.htm
|
|
| |
| | Global Pattern Of Blindness Changes With Success In Tackling Infectious Disease And As Population Ages |
| | Today, these factors are far less important compared to chronic diseases such as diabetes, the new figures show. | | | This has been achieved despite the competing demands on the limited resources of the governmental health sector from other public health priorities. | | | * Eye care, integrated into the primary health care system, that has contributed to the decline in vision loss from trachoma, onchocerciasis, vitamin A deficiency, and even cataract, through comprehensive services including out-reach case finding and eye health education. |
|
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041219133016.htm
|
|
| |
| | onchocerciasis - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Onchocerciasis : MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary [ home, info ] | | | onchocerciasis : The On-line Medical Dictionary [ home, info ] | | | Phrases that include onchocerciasis : ocular onchocerciasis, onchocerciasis ocular |
|
http://www.onelook.com/?w=onchocerciasis&loc=resrd
|
|
| |
| | The Story of Mectizan Page 7 |
| | With the introduction of Mectizan in 1987, communities for the first time had two weapons: the Onchocerciasis Control Programme to attack the blackfly larvae through spraying and a new breakthrough medicine to provide direct relief from the intense itching and prevent blindness. | | | The program was the first large-scale health effort initiated by the World Bank. | | | Convinced the approach was worth a try, Robert McNamara, World Bank president at the time, organized an international effort to finance what became known as the Onchocerciasis Control Programme. |
|
http://www.merck.com/about/cr/mectizan/p7.htm
|
|
| |
| | Global Partnership to Eliminate Riverblindness |
| | This drug was developed by Merck and Co. in the 1980s and is now donated for riverblindness control. | | | Vector control-treating the breeding sites of disease-transmitting flies with larvicides-was the only available approach. | | | Nonetheless, even this ambitious start was not sufficient; the program subsequently doubled in size to cover 11 countries in all. |
|
http://www.worldbank.org/gper
|
|
| |
| | USAID Health: Infectious Diseases, Success Story, Onchocerciasis Control Program Ends Its Work in West Africa |
| | As a consequence, more than 40 million people have been protected from onchocerciasis and more than 600,000 cases of blindness have been prevented. | | | The program sprayed larvicides, provided essential drugs through a public-private partnership with the U.S. pharmaceutical company Merck, and strengthened disease surveillance and public health management. | | | USAID and other donors continue to support onchocerciasis control efforts in 19 other African countries where the disease remains prevalent. |
|
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/id/wafrica.html
|
|
| |
| | Onchocerciasis, Ocular |
| | This resource on Onchocerciasis includes a fact sheet, and a link to WHO publications on Onchocerciasis. | | | This Web resource on Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is made available on the Web by the World Health Organization (WHO). |
|
http://omni.ac.uk/browse/mesh/D015827.html
|
|
|
