Report of the consultative meetings on Strategic Options and Alternative Treatment Strategies for Accelerating Onchocerciasis Elimination in Africa
African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), December 2015
Overview
APOC conducted a series of consultative workshops with the national control programme managers, representatives of NGDOs and other organisations involved in or supporting onchocerciasis control activities, scientists with expertise in different types of ATS currently available or under development, and experts in modelling the impact of interventions on O. volvulus transmission. The objective was to obtain advice on the identification of areas that require improved implementation of CDTI, areas for which country managers should consider ATS, the different types of ATS available and prerequisites for their successful implementation. The outcomes of these consultations were reviewed by TCC38 and TCC39 which strongly endorsed the conclusions. These were included in the 2015 WHO/APOC progress report presented to the last meeting of the JAF.
This document provides additional details, the results of analyses conducted with the data which became available after the consultations and includes references to relevant information sources. It is designed to provide countries with the basis for the considerations needed to decide where and how to improve onchocerciasis control programmes to accelerate progress towards the elimination of onchocerciasis.