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Guyana to attend preventative chemotherapy meeting

Feb 04, 2017 News

Guyana will have a presence when the Eighth Neglected Tropical Disease Strategic Technical Advisory working meeting convenes at the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
According to Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, Cabinet has approved the attendance of Dr. Fabu Moses of the Ministry of Public Health to attend the meeting.
The meeting, according to Harmon, will address the monitoring and evaluating of preventative chemotherapy between February 15 and February 17, 2017.
Preventative Chemotherapy and Transmission Control is the term used to cover the approach to persons treating people affected by diseases related to parasitic worms such as ground worm, filarial worms, hook worms and tape worm.
According to Harmon, it is anticipated that approximately one billion people worldwide and especially in developing countries, are affected by these parasites with school children being the most affected.
The meeting later this month will determine priorities worldwide to combat these diseases in 2017 and beyond, Harmon disclosed Thursday.
According to WHO, Preventative Chemotherapy and Transmission Control focuses on diseases for which a strategy exists, as well as on tools and the availability of safe and effective drugs that make it feasible to implement large-scale preventive chemotherapy.
The diseases, WHO has outlined, include cysticercosis, dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease), food-borne trematode infections, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis.
Blinding trachoma control through the SAFE strategy – combining drug treatment with hygiene and environmental management – can be linked to helminth control interventions to improve the overall health of affected communities, WHO has noted.
Moreover, the goal, as outlined by WHO, is to provide national programmes with technical guidelines that emphasize a coordinated, cost-effective approach to the implementation of national elimination and control activities where preventive chemotherapy is the main tool, i.e. regular anthelminthic drug administration to all people at risk of morbidity due to helminthic diseases, starting early in life.
The objectives therefore, according to WHO, include developing technical guidelines and tools; building capacity through development of training tools, workshops and guidelines; advocating for a coordinated approach to preventive chemotherapy; to build new partnerships and expanding those that already exist.
The strategy to achieve this, WHO has asserted, will be “to coordinate preventive chemotherapy and transmission control global strategies in consultation with WHO country and regional offices, collaborating centres and partners from academic and research institutions, the private sector, non-governmental development organizations, international agencies and other United Nations organizations.”

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