Onchocerciasis

Onchocerciasis, or river blindness, is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that can cause visual impairment and debilitating and disfiguring skin disease. It is the world’s second leading cause of blindness due to infection and the world’s fourth leading cause of preventable blindness. It is a parasitic disease, caused by a filarial worm, and is transmitted by repeated bites from infected blackflies. It is called river blindness because the infected blackflies breed in rapidly flowing streams; villages situated along these streams are generally the most affected. There are an estimated 25 million individuals who are infected with onchocerciasis and another 123 million people who are at risk for the disease. There are an estimated 300,000 cases…

Tropical areas of the world are heavily ravaged by the burdens of parasitic diseases. While malaria attracts much of the attention, there are still unreasonable burdens placed on communities by other filarial infections such as Onchocerciasis. Recently, there have been effective strategies used to eradicate Dracunculus medinensis from almost all endemic areas. Both Onchocerca and Dracunculus are nematodes they are radially symmetrical, have three tissue layers, and have a hydrostatic skeleton.…

healthcare. Other than that, Merck also applauded Colombia’s government in the same year for the Onchocerciasis. The government of Colombia works with The Carter Centre-sponsored Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas that leads to PAHO/WHO (Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization’s Regional Office for the Americas) and also the MECTIZAN Donation Program. The PAHO/WHO appointed Colombia as the world’s first country in eliminating the river blindness transmission…

River blindness, also known as Onchocerciasis or Robles disease is an illness caused by an infection through a parasitic warm known as onchocerca volvulus. Since its first diagnosis and naming, river blindness has become a serious problem to many individuals especially in parts of Africa, Yemen, and South America. In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that onchocerciasis had not caused a single death. However, the illness had become a global burden by causing disability adjusted…

Loiasis is called the African eye worm. It is caused by the parasitic worm Loa loa. This disease is transmitted by horseflies breeding in the forests of West and Central Africa. Loiasis gets its name from the well-known sign which is the visible passing of the Loa loa worm through the eye. Day to day the disease has receives little to no attention. Loiasis considered as a barrier to other disease control efforts. This is so because individuals with a large amount of Loa loa larvae in the blood…

2.1. Ivermectin in Mass drug administration (MDA): A miracle drug, or a double sword in the elimination programs Ivermectin has been used in several hundreds of millions of individuals within the onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis MDA control programs and is considered well tolerated[59]. The drug has shown good efficacy against several other parasitic infections, such as soil-transmitted helminth infections, pediculosis, and cutaneous larva migrans [87]. A reduction of the transmission of…

Thus, it is important for the diagnosis and management of the underlying disease resulting in interstitial keratitis in order to achieve an effective treatment. There are many causes of interstitial keratitis belonging to four main categories: bacterial, viral, parasitic, and immune-related. Some etiologies of IK include syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy, Lyme disease, herpes (both simplex and zoster), Epstein-Barr, Leishmaniasis, Onchocerciasis, Trypanosomiasis, Cogan’s Syndrome and rheumatoid…

For instance I learned from the Combating diarrheal disease that children suffer from this disease more. In addition to the fact that women or oral rehydration works had to be trained in the preparation for the solution that will help these people with this disease. These women went to all the homes in Bangla in order to prepare and give these solution to those who needed it, it cost about 9.3 million for these people to help the people of Bangla. In the Integration Service at the Grassroots…

The foundation for the work of Helen Keller was established in 1915, with Helen Keller as a founding agent. Helen Keller International (HKI) works to save the sight and lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the world. Its headquarters are situated in New York City. HKI presently offer programs in 21 countries in Africa and Asia, among those which are currently ongoing in the United States. The organization battles the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition.…

Air Pollution There is no pollution control authority in my country. However no one needs an official pollution monitoring system to realize that the air we breathe in the city of Kinshasa is very polluted. It is useless to search for official pollution information on Kinshasa. Even in the 2014 WHO report on air pollution, data on Africa in general and on Congo in particular are not available. When looking on the WHO website, we can find statistics on regions like America, Pacific, Asia and…