LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS: CHALLENGES OF ELIMINATION IN NIGERIA

A. Y., Bala

dc.contributor.author	A. Y., Bala
dc.date.accessioned	2024-10-07T10:33:04Z
dc.date.available	2024-10-07T10:33:04Z
dc.date.issued	24-08-20
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1049
dc.description	Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) commonly known as elephantiasis is a painful and profoundly disfiguring disease that has a major social and economic impact in Asia, Africa, the Western Pacific and parts of the Americas (Ottesen 1997). It is one of the leading causes of permanent and long-term disability in the world (WHO, 2019).	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Department of Zoology	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Department of Zoology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Inaugural Lecture;34
dc.subject	The National Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programme (NLFEP) was established in 1997, in response to World Health Assembly Resolution urging member States to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) as a public health problem. NLFEP was merged with NOCP in 2007 in order to harmonise implementation of MDA in co-endemic areas. The National Goal was set to eliminate the LF by 2016.	en_US
dc.title	LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS: CHALLENGES OF ELIMINATION IN NIGERIA	en_US
dc.type	Other	en_US