Commentary: restarting NTD programme activities after the Ebola outbreak in Liberia
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Commentary: restarting NTD programme activities after the Ebola outbreak in Liberia
It is widely known that the recent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa caused a serious disruption to the national health system, with many of ongoing disease focused programmes, such as mass drug administration (MDA) for onchocerciasis (ONC), lymphatic filariasis (LF) and schistosomiasis (SCH), being suspended or scaled-down. As these MDA programmes attempt to restart post-EVD it is impor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infectious Diseases of Poverty
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2049-9957
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-017-0272-8