Assessing progress in reducing the at-risk population after 13 years of the global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis.

• Main Authors: Pamela J Hooper (Author), Brian K Chu (Author), Alexei Mikhailov (Author), Eric A Ottesen (Author), Mark Bradley (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In 1997, the World Health Assembly adopted Resolution 50.29, committing to the elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem, subsequently targeted for 2020. The initial estimates were that 1.2 billion people were at-risk for LF infection globally. Now, 13 years after the Globa...