The Challenge -- Launching and Scaling Up the Onchocerciasis Control Program -- Expansion and Rescue -- The Game Changer -- Ivermectin -- Getting Mectizan to Africa, Concluding OCP -- A Closer Look at Socioeconomic Development -- Widening the Effort to All of Africa -- Deepening and Widening the Objective -- Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Summary
"The World Bank coordinated a fight against riverblindness, a parasitic tropical disease, which commenced more than forty years ago. The story of the battle has an epic scale, both in terms of geography and the number of people and organizations involved. The book provides a success story and a bureaucratic template for other global health efforts. The author worked for the World Bank and oversaw its campaign to end riverblindness"-- Provided by publisher
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2020)