Onchocerciasis then and now: achievements, priorities and challenges
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In 1987, just before fi rst issue of the Community Eye Health Journal was published, the pharmaceutical Company MSD (known as Merck & Co. Inc. in the USA and Canada) made an unprecedented commitment to donate Mectizan® (ivermectin MSD), for as long as was needed, to control onchocerciasis (river blindness).1 Mass distribution of Mectizan revolutionised the approach to onchocerciasis control at the time, and has since led to mass drug administration for some of the other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). It had become possible to imagine that onchocerciasis would one day be eliminated.
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