The goal of the National Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (NPELF) is to eliminate LF by 2008.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the Secretariat of the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis and provides technical and financial support. Detailed information (endemicity, MDA, monitoring and evaluation) on this and other NPELF can be found on www.who.int/lymphatic_filariais. |
Country data
Population |
514,110 million |
Endemicity |
514,220 at risk. All 17 implementation units (IU) are endemic |
Clinical manifestations |
267 hydrocoele cases treated surgically |
Drug regime |
Albendazole – donated by GlaxoSmithKline
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MDA implementation cycle |
November 2006; March 2007; May 2007 |
Treatment strategy |
Door-to-Door |
Social mobilisation |
The TDM is preceded by a communication and public awareness campaign through community organizations, in particular health volunteer associations and the committees in the villages. Coorindation, at the same time, takes place between the authorities and the partners. Messages and sketches are disseminated intensely by radios and TV (national and comjmunity), and through the use of posters, similar to the COMBI for a behavioural impact. |
Vector control |
The PNLP has a community based policy. It distributes mosquito nets to pregnant women and children of less than 5 years free.
The village committees and some NGOs carry occasional environmental cleansing activities. |
Co-implementation |
Soil-transmitted helminths and malaria programmes |
Recognition
Filaria species |
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Wuchereria bancrofti |
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Onchocerca volvulus |
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Loa loa |
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Mansonella perstans |
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Vectors |
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Anopheles gambiae complex |
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Simulium damnosum sl |
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Culex quinquefasciatus |
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Culicoides spp. |
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An. funestus |
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S. naevis |
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Diagnostics |
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ICT |
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Blood slide |
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Skin snips |
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Blood smears; Mazotti reaction |
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Night blood smears |
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REMO |
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Skin biopsies |
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Counting Chamber |
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Capacity Building
Year |
Type of training |
Number trained |
2006 |
Based on the LF programme policy and mission technology
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120 |
2006 |
282 |
2007 |
350 |
Programme Support & Partnerships
The NPELF is included in both the national and district (IU) level budgets
Partners |
Activities |
Mapping |
MDA |
Social Mobilisation |
Morbidity Management |
Hydrocoele Surgery |
Operational Research |
Training |
M&E Surveillance |
Funding partners |
| World Health Organization |
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| AMA* |
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* Agence de Musulement d'Afrique
Disability prevention programme
The programme envisages specific patient care from the 4th TDM. In addition, surgical operations are practised and the other sufferings are relieved through medical consultations.
Budget line
Ministry of Health budget line for LF/PCT at the national level or at the IU level.
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