Towards Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Factors Favouring the Success of Efforts to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis

  • Biological Considerations

  • Technical Considerations

    • Available intervention (treatment) tools: excellent

    • Available monitoring (diagnostic) tools: excellent

    • Costs of control/elimination programmes: ‘inexpensive’ and easily ‘packaged’

    • Examples of successful elimination: already exist

    • Attention of the world health community: ‘visibility’ of lymphatic filariasis and feasibility of its elimination, increasingly recognised

  • Defining the Strategy to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis as a Public Health Problem

    • Stopping the spread of infection (interrupting transmission)

      • Alleviating the suffering from filarial disease (morbidity control)

• The Next Steps in Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination

• Outlook and Specific Goal

• References