African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC)

African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) fact sheet

Ivermectin treatment in APOC countries (as at 2010)


Country Start Year Total Treatments (2010) CDTI geographic coverage % (2010) CDTI therapeutic coverage % (2010)
Angola 2004 711,276 80.3 68.0
Burundi 2005 1,146,033 100 78.7
Cameroun 1998 5,300,025 98.4 78.8
CAR 1998 1,264,508 86.8 81.9
Chad 2001 1,542,377 100 81.0
Congo 1998 651,922 100 81.2
DRC 2001 20,290,244 93.2 72.7
Eq. Guinea 1998 57,735 100 71.0
Ethiopia 2001 4,809,869 100 80.6
Liberia 1999 2,003,343 99.2 80.9
Malawi 1997 1,666,048 100 82.6
Nigeria 1998 29,116,332 99.0 80.0
South Sudan 2,981,506 86.2 52.2
Sudan 1998 329,702 100 84.1
Tanzania 1998 1,901,542 100 80.1
Uganda 1999 2,031,079 79.2 64.8

Total 75 803 541

Co-implementation (as at 2010)


Health intervention Person reached/treated (Million) Number of CDDs involved
Lymphatic filariasis 12,7 94,083
Soil transmitted helminthiasis 9.0 146,353
Schistosomiasis 2.6 27,383
Trachoma 1,1 7,233
Distribution ITN 10,1 140,026
Home management of Malaria 8,5 66,555
Vitamin A distribution 7,2 137,405
Polio vaccination 1,2 21,550
Cholera 0.5
HIV/AIDS 2.0

Total 54,9 640,588
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