The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) covers 19 African countries and more than 85% of all people affected by onchocerciasis, or river blindness, in the world. With the goal of elimination of river blindness as a public health and socio-economic problem throughout Africa, APOC intends to establish self-sustainable community-directed treatment with ivermectin throughout the endemic areas and to eradicate the vector in selected foci.
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