PDF-Guinea Worm Eradication Programme GWEP

Certification of India as a Guinea Worm disease free country by the World Health Organisation in February 2000 is a major milestone in the history of disease eradication in India Guinea worm is the. This deadly cattle plague triggered several famines and caused the loss of draught animal power in agricultural communities in the 18 th 19 th and 20 th centuries With the launching in 1994 of the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme GREP FAO sp farms. Enric Marco . m. arco. . i. collell; S.L.. PRRS is possible. “Test and removal” (Dee and . Molitor. , 1998),. Closed up . of the herd (. Torremorell. and Christianson, 2001) . Partial depopulation (. Dracunculiasis. Lucy . Pogosian. Biology 402-Infectious Diseases. What is guinea worm disease?. GWD is considered a Neglected Tropical Disease . Caused by the parasite . Dracunculus. . medinensis. Humans are the only . Health. Kenya Guinea Worm Eradication . Programme. Laico. Regency Hotel - 26. th. August. . 2015. Guinea worm disease. 1. White Worm Emerging from the skin. Guinea Worm - a white worm emerging from a skin lesion.. 1 Operational Guidelines on Case Holding Under the National Leprosy Eradication Programme all newly detected leprosy cases are put under MDT which is continued for 6 months in case of PB and 12 month HOW A SOCIAL NORM WAS CREATED. Michael Forson. Case Study for . UNICEF/. UPenn. Social Norm Course. Pennsylvania University, USA. 1 – 12 July 2013. The challenge - Guinea Worm disease in . Ghana. World Health Assembly resolution in 1986 to eradicate Guinea worm Disease. Part 1: Technical Rationale for IPV Introduction and OPV Withdrawal. GPEI Accomplishment . Significant Decline in Paralysis Due to WPVs, 1988 to 2013*. Poliovirus Types. IPV. Number of Cases of cVDPV-related Polio Exceeds the Number of Cases of WPV. http://. sph.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/PH/PH709_B_Competition/PH709_B_Competition7.html. Presence of Dracunculiasis in humans has been documented for centuries. http://thedailyomnivore.net/2010/07/17/rod-of-asclepius/. MaliS. SudanEtOiopia 05101520 MaliS. SudanEtOiopia 05101520Number of cases MaliS. SudanEtOiopia 0510152010 38% of 26 cases contained.Provisional: as of 31 October 2017 2017*Number of Sina Helbig*,. . Akre. . M. . . Adja. , Alia. . Tayea, . Neil. . Arya. **. July. . 201. 9. Prepared as part of an education project of. . the Global Health Education Consortium and collaborating. .................................................. v ........................................ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY vii ERADICATION PROGRAM ........................... 1 1.2 Why the Need for Guinea W "        3       ! "                  :            People, in remote, rural communities who are most commonly affected by Guinea worm disease (GWD) frequently do not have access to medical care. Emergence of the adult female worm can be very painful, www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 16 February 2016 Guinea worm disease nears eradicationOnly two infectious diseases have ever been eradicated: smallpox, of which the last naturally transmitted case o