The goal of the National Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (NPELF) is to eliminate LF by 2017

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.

MDA Treatments

Data not available

Country data

Population	11,900,000 (2006)
Endemicity	5,100,000 at risk in 31 out of 65 implementation units
Clinical manifestations
Drug regime	Albendazole – donated by GlaxoSmithKline Mectizan® - donated by Merck & Co. Inc.
MDA implementation cycle	The first MDA is planned for late 2007 in 7 districts in Tamabacounda. The target population is approximately 550,000
Treatment strategy	Door-to-door and by groups in village and district public places
Social mobilisation	National and community radio and television. The population will be sensitised through talks and the production of edcuational material (posters, folders etc) in the districts
Vector control	None. It is planned to integrate with the Malaria Control Programme
Co-implementation	Onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths, trachoma - integration developing

Recognition

Filaria species
	Wuchereria bancrofti		Onchocerca volvulus		Loa loa		Mansonella perstans
Vectors
	Anopheles gambiae complex		Simulium damnosum sl		Culex quinquefasciatus		Culicoides spp.
	An. funestus		S. naevis
Diagnostics
	ICT		Blood slide		Skin snips		Blood smears; Mazotti reaction
	Night blood smears		REMO		Skin biopsies		Counting Chamber

Capacity Building
The Senegalese programme was established in 2007. People who are targeted are members of the 7 medical district management teams (4 per medical district), and the 32 members of the Tambacounda medical area management team. In addition training of approximately 100 chief station nurses of these medical districts is planned.

The chief station nurses will train approximately 1,450 community drug distributors prior to the 2007 mass distribution campaign.

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
Mectizan Donation Program

Disability prevention programme
No programme

Budget line
The Ministry of Health has a budget line for 2007