Description
Reducing filarial infections involves implementing targeted vector control measures, mass drug administration, and public health education to interrupt transmission of filarial parasites. Essential actions include distributing anti-filarial medications, promoting use of insecticide-treated nets, improving sanitation, and monitoring infection rates. These strategies aim to decrease disease prevalence, prevent disability, and ultimately eliminate filarial infections as a public health problem by addressing both the human and environmental factors contributing to transmission.
Implementation
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.
The aim is to implement control programmes in countries where major human parasitic infections are endemic and achieve an overall reduction in the prevalence of schistosomiasis and of other trematode infections by 40% and 25% respectively by the year 2000, from a 1984 baseline, as well as a marked reduction in incidence, prevalence and intensity of filarial infections.
Broader
Value
Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
- Medicine » Pathology
Content quality
Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
J1160
DOCID
12011600
D7NID
220934
Editing link
Official link
Last update
Dec 3, 2024