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River Blindness Program - Program Reports

Each year, the Carter Center's River Blindness Program hosts a program review at The Carter Center in Atlanta. The reviews are modeled after those developed for the national Guinea Worm Eradication Programs by the health programs of The Carter Center, and by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, beginning in Pakistan in 1988. The primary purpose of the reviews is to assess the status of each country program and to determine impediments and problems in program implementation.

Each country program is outlined with presentations with discussions focused on treatment and training activities, annual and ultimate treatment goals, health education, sustainability issues, Mectizan® security, epidemiological assessment activities, operations research, and administrative issues. Key aspects of the program reviews, supplemented by updated treatment data provided following the meetings, are summarized in these reports as are recommendations for the Center's River Blindness Program actions for the following year.

25 August 2008
Summary 2007 Program Review for The Lions-Carter Center SightFirst River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Held February 6-8, 2008, at The Carter Center in Atlanta for programs in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, OEPA, Sudan, and Uganda.

22 July 2008
Onchocerciasis Report From the Seventeenth InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis (PDF)
River Blindness Report, presented to the InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis in Quito, Ecuador, November 15–17, 2007. Published in Weekly epidemiological record, World Health Organization, No. 29, 2008.

29 October 2007
Relatoría de la XVI Conferencia Interamericana sobre Oncocercosis IACO 2006 (PDF)
La Décima Sexta Conferencia Interamericana sobre Oncocercosis (IACO 2006) se llevó a cabo durante los días 07-09 de noviembre, en la ciudad de Antigua, Guatemala.

1 September 2007
Summary 2006 Program Review for The Lions-Carter Center SightFirst River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Held April. 19-21, 2007, for programs in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, OEPA, Sudan, and Uganda.

31 August 2007
Onchocerciasis Report From the Sixteenth InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis (PDF)
River Blindness Report, presented to the InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, Nov. 7-9. Published in Weekly epidemiological record, World Health Organization, No. 35, 2007.

1 June 2007
Meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication – 11 January 2007 (PDF)
The tenth meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication (ITFDE) was convened at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. on 11 January 2007. Published in Weekly epidemiological record, World Health Organization, Nos. 22/23, 2007.

28 July 2006
Onchocerciasis Report From the Fifteenth InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis (PDF)
River Blindness Report, presented to the fifteenth InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis in Caracas, Venezuela. Published in Weekly epidemiological record, World Health Organization, No. 30, 2006.

1 March 2006
Summary 2005 Program Review for The Lions-Carter Center SightFirst River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Held Feb. 20-22, 2006, at Hilton, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia for programs in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, OEPA, Sudan, and Uganda.
 

1 August 2005
Summary 2004 Program Review for The Lions-Carter Center SightFirst River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Held March 3-5, 2005, at The Carter Center in Atlanta for programs in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, OEPA, Sudan, and Uganda.

29 July 2005
Onchocerciasis Report From the Fourteenth InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis (PDF)
River Blindness Report, presented to the fourteenth InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Published in Weekly epidemiological record, World Health Organization, No. 30, 2005.

20 August 2004
Onchocerciasis Report From the Thirteenth InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis [PDF]
River Blindness Report, presented to the thirteenth InterAmerican Conference on Onchocerciasis in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Published in Weekly epidemiological record, World Health Organization, No. 34, 2004.

12 July 2004
2003 Program Review for The Carter Center/Lions SightFirst River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Summary of the 2003 Program Review for The Carter Center/Lions SightFirst River Blindness Programs: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, OEPA, Sudan, and Uganda, held Mar. 1-3, 2004.

27 March 2003
2002 Program Review for The Carter Center/Lions SightFirst River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Summary of the Feb. 26-28, 2003 Program Review (Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, OEPA, Sudan, and Uganda) held at The Carter Center, Atlanta, Ga.

21 November 2002
XII Conferencia Interamericana Sobre Oncocercosis: IACO 2002 (PDF)
Relatoria. Tema central: "Nuevos enfoques para acelerar la eliminacion de la Oncocercosis." Manaus, Estado de Amazonas, Brasil, 19 al 21 de noviembre 2002.

23 July 2002
2001 Program Review for The Carter Center/Lions SightFirst River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Summary of the 2001 Program Review for The Carter Center/Lions SightFirst River Blindness Programs: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, OEPA, Sudan, and Uganda, held Mar. 13-15, 2002.

24 January 2002
Final Report of the Conference on the Eradicability of Onchocerciasis
Final Report of the Conference on the Eradicability of Onchocerciasis, The Carter Center, Cecil B. Day Chapel, Atlanta, Ga. Held Jan. 22-24, 2002, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, and The Carter Center.

12 September 2001
2000 Program Review for Global 2000 River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Summary--2000 Program Review for Global 2000 River Blindness Programs: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, OEPA, Sudan, and Uganda, held Feb. 26-28, 2001.

25 September 2000
1999 Program Review for Global 2000 River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Summary of the 1999 Program Review for Global 2000 River Blindness Programs: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, OEPA, Sudan, and Uganda, held Feb. 7-9, 2000. 

10 October 1999
1998  Program Review for Global 2000 River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Program Review for Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Sudan, and OEPA, 17-19 February 1999, The Carter Center, Atlanta, GA.

1 October 1998
1997 Program Review for Global 2000 River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Program Review for Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Sudan, and OEPA, 25-27 February 1998, The Carter Center, Atlanta, GA.

1 October 1997
1996 Program Review for Global 2000 River Blindness Programs (PDF)
Program Review for Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, and OEPA, 9-11 December 1996, The Carter Center, Atlanta, GA. 

1 October 1996
1995 Program Review for Global 2000 River Blindness Program (PDF)
Program Review for Nigerian Onchocerciasis Control Program, 16 November 1995, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.