Progress toward global eradication of dracunculiasis, January-June 2003.

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In 1986 , when the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the eradication of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease ), an estimated 3 .5 million persons in 20 countries had the disease , and approximately 120 million persons were at risk for infection . By the end of 2002 , annual incidence of the disease had been reduced >98 %; seven countries in which dracunculiasis formerly was endemic (Cameroon , Chad , India , Kenya , Pakistan , Senegal , and Yemen ) were free of the disease , and four countries (Central African Republic , Ethiopia , Mauritania , and Uganda ) reported <100 cases each . During 1993 -2002 , the number of villages outside Sudan that reported cases decreased from approximately 23 ,000 to 2 ,022 . This report describes the status of the global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program (DEP )* as of June 2003 . The data indicate that incidence of the disease outside Ghana and Sudan has declined substantially since June 2002 . Continuing efforts in all countries in which the disease is endemic , intensified efforts in Ghana , and an end to the ongoing war in Sudan are required for the eradication of dracunculiasis .

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