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Technical documents

• The role of polymerase chain reaction techniques for assessing lymphatic filariasis transmission
  Report of a workshop cosponsored by the World Health Organization and the Institute for Health Research and Development, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7–10 November 2006. And Annexes
• Preliminary findings from a cross-sectional study on lymphatic filariasis in children, in an area of India endemic for Brugia malayi infection
  Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology - Vol. 101, Number 3, April 2007, Pages 205-213(9)
• Monitoring and epidemiological assessment of the programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis at implementation unit level
  Ref: WHO/CDS/CPE/CEE/2005.50
• Strategic Plan 2003–2005, Challenges of scaling up
  Global programme for the elimination of Lymphatic filariasis
  Ref: CDS/CPE/CEE/2004.39
• Plan stratégique 2003–2005, Les défis de l’élargissement
  Programme mondial pour l'élimination de la filariose lymphatique
  Ref: CDS/CPE/CEE/2004.39
• Defining the roles of vector control and xenomonitoring in the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis
  Report of the informal consultation WHO/HQ, Geneva, 29-31 January 2002
• Guidelines for rapid assessment of loa loa
  UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
  Ref: TDR/IDE/RAPLOA/02.1
• The involvement of community-directed distributors of ivermectin in other health and development activities
  UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
  Ref: TDR/IDE/RAPLOA/02.1
• Surgical approaches to the urogenital manifestations of lymphatic filariasis
  Report of an informal consultation, 15-16 April 2002
  Ref: WHO/CDS/CPE/CEE/2002.33
• Les méthodes chirurgicales pour traiter les manifestations urogénitales de la filariose lymphatique
  Rapport d'une consultation informelle, 15-16 Avril 2002
  Ref: WHO/CDS/CPE/CEE/2002.33
• Preparing and implementing a national plan to eliminate filariasis: (in countries where onchocerciasis is co-endemic)
  World Health Organization, 2002
  Ref:WHO/CDS/CPE/CEE/2000.16
• Preparing and implementing a national plan to eliminate filariasis: (in countries where onchocerciasis is not co-endemic)
  World Health Organization, 2002
  Ref:WHO/CDS/CPE/CEE/2000.15
• Operational guidelines for rapid mapping of Bancroftian filariasis in Africa
  Revised during an inter-country workshop held in Ouagadougou, 8-12 March 2000
  Ref:WHO/CDS/CPE/CEE/2000.9
• Community-directed treatment of lymphatic filariasis in Africa: report of a multi-centre study in Ghana and Kenya
  UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
  Ref: TDR/IDE/RP/CDTI/00.2
• Building partnerships for lymphatic filariasis
  strategic plan, working version: September 1999
  Ref: WHO/FIL/99.198