African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC)

African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) fact sheet

Ivermectin treatment in APOC countries (as at 2011)


Country Start Year Total Treatments (2011) CDTI geographic coverage % (2011) CDTI therapeutic coverage % (2011)
Angola 2004 131,487 20.2 12.2
Burundi 2005 1,176,498 100 80.1
Cameroun 1998 5,403,559 99.9 80.5
CAR 1998 1,502,260 90.4 82.0
Chad 2001 1,621,004 100 81.1
Congo 1998 686,127 100 81.2
DRC 2001 22,403,957 97.6 77.1
Eq. Guinea 1998 - - -
Ethiopia 2001 4,741,282 99.9 79.3
Liberia 1999 2,419,509 94.7 82.4
Malawi 1997 1,718,966 100 82.7
Nigeria 1998 30,439,546 99.8 79.4
South Sudan 3,467,340 82.1 60.8
Sudan 1998 329,702 100 81.7
Tanzania 1998 1,456,302 84.5 62.4
Uganda 1999 2,749,364 100 72.2

Total 80,246,903

Ivermectin treatment in former OCP countries (as at 2011)


Pays Total Treatments (2011) CDTI geographic coverage % (2011) CDTI therapeutic coverage % (2011)
Benin 2,745,061 95.6 84.5
Burkina Faso 176,936 100 83.6
Côte d'Ivoire 1,333,662 93 72.6
Ghana 1,776,626 99.1 77.4
Guinea 2,517,391 99.9 80.8
Guinea-Bissau 135,014 88.4 74.7
Mali 3,925,970 98.9 81.9
Sierra Leone 2,446,658 100 80.3
Togo 2,477,365 98.6 82.6

Total 17,534,683

Co-implementation (as at 2011)


Health intervention Persons reached/treated (Millions)
Lymphatic filariasis 41,5
Soil transmitted helminthiasis 5,5
Schistosomiasis 4,5
Trachoma 2
Distribution ITN 3,4
Home management of Malaria 2,4
Vitamin A distribution 1,9
Polio vaccination 0,6
Nutrition 0,5
Cataracts (detection and referral) 0,2

Total 62,5
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