The burden of skin disease and eye disease due to onchocerciasis in countries formerly under the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control mandate for 1990, 2020, and 2030.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Natalie V S Vinkeles Melchers, Wilma A Stolk, Welmoed van Loon, Belén Pedrique, Roel Bakker, Michele E Murdoch, Sake J de Vlas, Luc E Coffeng
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Daly
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009604; https://doaj.org/article/b513b8d560024ee0a8ebb56d338e43fc

Background Onchocerciasis ("river blindness") can cause severe morbidity, including vision loss and various skin manifestations, and is targeted for elimination using ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA). We calculated the number of people with Onchocerca volvulus infection and onchoc...