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Riverblindness in Africa : Taming the Lion's Stare /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Benton, Bruce, |d 1942- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Riverblindness in Africa : |b Taming the Lion's Stare / |c Bruce Benton ; foreword by James D. Wolfensohn. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Baltimore : |b Johns Hopkins University Press, |c [2020] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2020 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©[2020] | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 610 | 2 | 2 | |a African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control. |
| 610 | 2 | 2 | |a Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa. |
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| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a Program Evaluation |
| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a Disease Eradication |x organization & administration |
| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a Neglected Diseases |x prevention & control |
| 650 | 1 | 2 | |a Onchocerciasis, Ocular |x epidemiology |
| 650 | 1 | 2 | |a Onchocerciasis, Ocular |x prevention & control |
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