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The Centre, which is situated within the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, benefits from the School's experience in river blindness control programmes and has substantial links with LF endemic countries. The Centre also has an extensive research portfolio and technical background on the filarial parasites and their mosquito vectors. The Centre's role is to provide advice, funding, liaison and facilitation to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. It acts as a key interface between science and operations by facilitating activities on mapping in Africa and South-East Asia, supporting operational research with NGDOs and co-founding, with the WHO/World Bank/UNDP Special Programme for Research and Training (TDR), priority research activities for evaluation and monitoring. The Lymphatic Filariasis
Support Centre in collaboration with BioMed Central and the Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine publishes the Filaria
Journal, an electronic journal addressing the biology, infections,
disease and control of filariasis, onchocerciasis and guinea worm
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