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ONCHOCERCIASIS AND CHAGAS' DISEASE CONTROL: THE EVOLUTION OF CONTROL VIA APPLIED RESEARCH THROUGH CHANGING DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS
Molyneux, D. H. et al. | Date Issued: 1998
Author
Molyneux, D. H.
Morel, Carlos Medicis
Affilliation
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
This paper addresses the development of control strategies of two different parasitic diseases and identifies commonalities which have contributed to the success of regional intercountry programmes of onchocerciasis control in Africa, the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP), and the new African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC)1"3 and the Chagas' Disease Control Programme in the southern cone of South America.
Keywords
Chagas disease
Onchocerciasis
West Africa
South America
 
DeCS
Doença de Chagas
Oncocercose
 
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Citation
MOLYNEUX, D. H.; MOREL, Carlos Medicis. Onchocerciasis and Chagas disease control: the evolution of control via applied research through changing development schenarios. British Medical Bulletin, Londres, v. 54, n.2, p. 327-339, 1998.
DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011691
ISSN
0007-1420