A regional initiative of Bangladesh, India and Nepal, launched in 2005 with World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office support, to eliminate kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, as a public health problem. At the time the WHO South-East Asia Region carried about 70 percent of the world's kala-azar burden, and the three governments set an elimination threshold of fewer than one case per 10,000 people at the district level in Nepal and the subdistrict level in Bangladesh and India. Reported cases fell from roughly 182,000 during 2005-2008 to about 85,000 during 2011-2014, a decline WHO credits to expanded vector control, improved diagnosis and case management under the initiative, and the three countries carried the effort into a further phase covering 2022 to 2026 aimed at validating elimination of the disease as a public health problem across the region.
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Sponsoring BodyWorld Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office, with the governments of Bangladesh, India and Nepal 1 Health GoalEliminate visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) as a public health problem, reducing incidence to less than one case per 10,000 population at sub-district level 1 Classification
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Source WHO: South-East Asia Poised to Defeat Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala-azar)
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Source WHO: South-East Asia Poised to Defeat Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala-azar)Opening sentencetier 1Quote, Opening sentence
Three countries of WHO’s South-East Asia Region – Bangladesh, India and Nepal – are poised to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) as a public health problem.
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Three countries of WHO’s South-East Asia Region – Bangladesh, India and Nepal – are poised to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) as a public health problem.
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Source WHO: South-East Asia Poised to Defeat Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala-azar)Opening sentencetier 1Quote, Opening sentence
Three countries of WHO’s South-East Asia Region – Bangladesh, India and Nepal – are poised to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) as a public health problem.
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World Health Organization, 2015Elimination target paragraph, WHO kala-azar news item
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The 10 209 new cases reported in 2014 represents a 75% decrease from 2005 when the Kala-Azar Elimination Programme was launched.
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Reported cases fell from roughly 182,000 during 2005-2008 to about 85,000 during 2011-2014, a decline WHO credits to expanded vector control, improved diagnosis and case management under the initiative, and the three countries carried the effort into a further phase covering 2022 to 2026 aimed at validating elimination of the disease as a public health problem across the region.
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The 10 209 new cases reported in 2014 represents a 75% decrease from 2005 when the Kala-Azar Elimination Programme was launched. “ Achieving a drop of 85% in mortality is impressive, ” said Dr Daniel Argaw Dagne, Head of the Leishmaniasis Control Programme at WHO’s Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases. “ What is more impressive is that Nepal, having eliminated kala-azar at district level, has been able to sustain the gain for the past 2 years.
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