Onchocerciasis

Publications

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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 2. Intervention Cost–Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages
2. 8. Improving the Health of Populations: Lessons of Experience
   1. General Findings
   2. Intervention Type, Programmatic Characteristics, and Policies
3. 13. Recent Trends and Innovations in Development Assistance for Health
4. 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy
   1. Conclusion
   2. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
   3. Disease Burden
   4. Disease Characteristics and Transmission
   5. Interventions and Their Effectiveness
   6. Research Needs and Priorities
5. 23. Tropical Diseases Lacking Adequate Control Measures: Dengue, Leishmaniasis, and African Trypanosomiasis
   1. Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions
   2. Management and Control Strategies
   3. Problems and Challenges for Disease Control
   4. Summary
6. 24. Helminth Infections: Soil–Transmitted Helminth Infections and Schistosomiasis
   1. Epidemiology of STH Infections and Schistosomiasis
   2. Research and Development
7. 37. Skin Diseases
   1. Prevalence of Skin Diseases
8. 50. Loss of Vision and Hearing
   1. Nature, Causes, and Epidemiology of Vision Loss
9. 62. Control and Eradication
   1. Disease-Specific Case Studies

Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

1. 3. The Burden of Disease and Mortality by Condition: Data, Methods, and Results for 2001

Priorities in Health

1. 2. Success in Addressing Priorities

Chapter Presentations

Chapter 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy

1. Control Strategies, Major Challenges, and Research Needs for Onchocerciasis
2. Cost per DALY Averted for Main Interventions for Select Targeted Tropical Diseases (US$)
3. DALYs Lost, by Disease and Select World Bank Region (thousands)
4. DALYs Lost, by Disease and Select World Bank Region (thousands)