Scaling-Down Mass Ivermectin Treatment for Onchocerciasis Elimination: Modeling the Impact of the Geographical Unit for Decision Making.

Wilma A StolkDavid J BlokJonathan I D HamleyPaul T CanteySake J de VlasMartin WalkerMaría-Gloria Basáñez

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)

The geographical scale at which stop-MDA decisions are made strongly determines how rapidly national onchocerciasis programs can scale down MDA programs. Stopping in portions of project areas or transmission zones would free up human and economic resources.

Keyphrases

decision making
quality improvement
breast cancer cells
public health
endothelial cells
cell cycle arrest
pluripotent stem cells
signaling pathway