Monitoring community-directed treatment programmes for sustainability: lessons from the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC)

Amazigo, Uche; Obono, Oka; Y. Dadzie, K.; Remme, J; Jiya, Jonathan; Ndyomugyenyi, R.; Roungou, Jean-Baptiste; Noma, Mounkaïla; Sékétéli, A.

doi:10.1179/000349802125000664

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Monitoring community-directed treatment programmes for sustainability: lessons from the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC)

Published in Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology • Mar 1, 2002

Authors:

Uche Amazigo

Oka Obono

K. Y. Dadzie

Abstract

Community-directed treatment is a relatively new strategy that was adopted in 1997 by the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), for large-scale distribution of ivermectin (Mectizan). Participatory monitoring of 39 of the control projects based on community-directed treatment with iver...

Subject

Onchocerciasis

Focus group

Population

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