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Riverblindness in Africa : taming the lion's stare / Bruce Benton ; foreword by James D. Wolfensohn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1421439670
  • 9781421439679
Other title:
  • River blindness in Africa
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 614.5/552 23
LOC classification:
  • RA644.O53 B46 2020
NLM classification:
  • WW 160
Online resources:
Contents:
The Challenge -- Launching and Scaling Up the Onchocerciasis Control Program -- Expansion and Rescue -- The Game Changer -- Ivermectin -- Getting Mectizan to Africa, Concluding OCP -- A Closer Look at Socioeconomic Development -- Widening the Effort to All of Africa -- Deepening and Widening the Objective -- Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future.
Summary: "The World Bank coordinated a fight against riverblindness, a parasitic tropical disease, which commenced more than forty years ago. The story of the battle has an epic scale, both in terms of geography and the number of people and organizations involved. The book provides a success story and a bureaucratic template for other global health efforts. The author worked for the World Bank and oversaw its campaign to end riverblindness"-- Provided by publisher
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The Challenge -- Launching and Scaling Up the Onchocerciasis Control Program -- Expansion and Rescue -- The Game Changer -- Ivermectin -- Getting Mectizan to Africa, Concluding OCP -- A Closer Look at Socioeconomic Development -- Widening the Effort to All of Africa -- Deepening and Widening the Objective -- Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future.

"The World Bank coordinated a fight against riverblindness, a parasitic tropical disease, which commenced more than forty years ago. The story of the battle has an epic scale, both in terms of geography and the number of people and organizations involved. The book provides a success story and a bureaucratic template for other global health efforts. The author worked for the World Bank and oversaw its campaign to end riverblindness"-- Provided by publisher

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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 651

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