Joaquin M Prada, Panayiota Touloupou, Biruck Kebede, Emanuelle Giorgi, Heven Sime, Morgan Smith, Periklis Kontoroupis, Paul Brown, Jorge Cano, Hajnal Farkas, Mike Irvine, Lisa Reimer, Rocio Caja Rivera, Sake J de Vlas, Edwin Michael, Wilma A Stolk, Rachel Pulan, Simon E F Spencer, T Déirdre Hollingsworth, Fikre Seife
BACKGROUND: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a debilitating, poverty-promoting, neglected tropical disease (NTD) targeted for worldwide elimination as a public health problem (EPHP) by 2030. Evaluating progress towards this target for national programmes is challenging, due to differences in disease transmission and interventions at the subnational level. Mathematical models can help address these challenges by capturing spatial heterogeneities and evaluating progress towards LF elimination and how different interventions could be leveraged to achieve elimination by 2030...
April 25, 2024: Clinical Infectious Diseases