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. 2020 Oct 7;11:81–95. doi: 10.2147/RRTM.S224364

Table 1.

Onchocerciasis in the Americas: Population at Risk, No Longer at Risk, Under Post-Treatment Surveillance (PTS), Eligible for Treatment and Transmission Status by Focus in 2017

Country Focus Treatment Approach Rounds >85% Through 2016 Number of Communities Population at Risk Population No Longer at Risk Population Eligible for Treatment Status of Transmission
Colombia Lopez de Micay 2×/year 20 1 1366 Eliminated in 2010
Ecuador Esmeraldas 2×/year 25 119 25,863 Eliminated in 2012
Mexico North Chiapas 2×/year 17 13 7125 Eliminated in 2010
Oaxaca 2×/year 18 98 44,919 Eliminated in 2011
South Chiapas 2×/year 25 396 83,218 Eliminated in 2014
4×/year 35 163 34,607
Focus total 559 117 825
Guatemala Escuintla 2×/year 13 117 62,590 Eliminated in 2010
Santa Rosa 2×/year 16 37 12,208 Eliminated in 2010
Huehuetenango 2×/year 17 43 30,239 Eliminated in 2011
Central 2×/year 22 321 126 430 Eliminated in 2014
Venezuela North central 2×/year 17 45 14,385 Eliminated in 2013
Northeast 2×/year 20 330 73,212 Eliminated in 2017
4×/year 9 135 22,355
Focus total 465 95,567
South 2×/year 16 66 4248 3744 Ongoing
4×/year 9 236 10,838 9273
Focus total 302 15,086 13,017
Brazil Amazonas 2×/year 26 117 7209 5954 Ongoing
4×/year 13 122 8266 6634
Focus total 239 15,475 12,588
Regional total 2359 30,561 538 517 25,605

Notes: Reprinted from Sauerbrey M, Lindsay JR, Richards FO Jr. Progress toward elimination of onchocerciasis in the Americas. Int Health. 2018;10:i71–i78, by permission of Oxford University Press.12