Table 1.

Health initiatives that could be combined with malaria control programmes

	Onchocerciasis	Lymphatic filariasis	Intestinal helminths/schistosomiasis	Measles	Trachoma
Objective	To establish within 12 years, effective and self sustainable community based ivermectin treatment throughout endemic areas in Africa	Elimination of lymphatic filariasis as public health problem by 2020	Reduce morbidity and mortality; target school aged children through regular treatment	Global eradication	Elimination of blindness due to trachoma
Programme strategy or intervention	Community directed treatment with ivermectin	Annual drug treatment with diethylcarbamazine plus albendazole or albendazole plus ivermectin in areas co-endemic for onchocerciasis. Vector control where appropriate	Mass chemotherapy through community treatment and school health programmes, improve sanitation, health education	High vaccination coverage of susceptible people: Catch up campaigns Follow up campaigns Surveillance	SAFE strategy (surgery, antibiotics, face washing, and environmental improvement—clean water and sanitation)
Affected regions	19 countries in WHO's AFRO region	≥80 endemic countries in the tropics	All developing countries in tropics and subtropics; schistosomiasis particularly in Africa, South East Asia, and parts of the Americas	All except Americas	Global tropics

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