Nigeria's war on terror: fighting dracunculiasis, onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, and schistosomiasis at the grassroots.

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Africa 's populous country , Nigeria , contains or contained more cases of dracunculiasis , onchocerciasis , lymphatic filariasis , and schistosomiasis than any other African nation and ranks or ranked first (dracunculiasis , onchocerciasis , schistosomiasis ) or third (lymphatic filariasis ) in the world for the same diseases . After beginning village -based interventions against dracunculiasis 20 years ago and confronting onchocerciasis a few years later , Nigeria has nearly eliminated dracunculiasis and has provided annual mass drug administration for onchocerciasis to over three quarters of that at -risk population for 7 years . With assistance from The Carter Center , Nigeria began treating lymphatic filariasis and schistosomiasis in two and three states , respectively , over the past decade , while conducting pioneering operational research as a basis for scaling up interventions against those diseases , for which much more remains to be done . This paper describes the status of Nigeria 's struggles against these four neglected tropical diseases and discusses challenges and plans for the future .

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