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Thomas, BC, Kollie, K, Koudou, Benjamin and Mackenzie, Charles (2017) 'Commentary: restarting NTD programme activities after the Ebola outbreak in Liberia'. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, Vol 6, Issue 1, p. 52.
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Abstract
It is widely known that the recent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa caused a serious disruption to the national health system, with many of ongoing disease focused programmes, such as mass drug administration (MDA) for onchocerciasis (ONC), lymphatic filariasis (LF) and schistosomiasis (SCH), being suspended or scaled-down. As these MDA programmes attempt to restart post-EVD it is important to understand the challenges that may be encountered. This commentary addresses the opinions of the major health sectors involved, as well as those of community members, regarding logistic needs and challenges faced as these important public health programmes consider restarting. There appears to be a strong desire by the communities to resume NTD programme activities, although it is clear that some important challenges remain, the most prominent being those resulting from the severe loss of trained staff.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WB Practice of Medicine > Therapeutics > WB 330 Drug therapy WC Communicable Diseases > Virus Diseases > Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers. Other Virus Diseases > WC 534 Viral hemorrhagic fevers |
| Faculty: Department: | Biological Sciences > Department of Tropical Disease Biology |
| Digital Object Identifer (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-017-0272-8 |
| Depositing User: | Stacy Murtagh |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jun 2017 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2018 13:14 |
| URI: | https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/7116 |
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