Accelerating the elimination of bilharzia in South Sudan amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Published on October 30, 2020

World Health Organization are conducting community-based mass drug administration against bilharzia targeting over 700 000 children aged 5 to 14 years in 15 endemic counties of Lakes and Northern Bahr el Ghazal states. WHO Africa

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Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis, January 2019–June 2020

October 30, 2020
During January–June 2020, the number of human dracunculiasis cases reported decreased to 19 in four countries (Angola, Chad, Ethiopia, and Mali) with one case in Cameroon in a patient possibly infected in Chad; South Sudan reported no human cases.Infected dogs, especially in Chad, and impeded access because of civil unrest and insecurity in Mali and South Sudan remain challenges to interrupting tr

Geospatial evaluation of trade-offs between equity in physical access to healthcare and health systems efficiency

October 30, 2020
Negative spatial correlations suggested that the geographical distribution of health services favoured efficiency over equity, but spatial autocorrelation measures revealed more equitable geographical distribution of facilities in certain countries. BMJ Global Health