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Speeches and Short Articles THE “RIVER BLINDNESS” CONTROL PROGRAMMES OCP AND APOC IN AFRICA: A CRITICAL REVIEW André Rougemont* ABSTRACT Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP; 1974 – 2002) was one of the most successful large scale operations ever carried out in the field of vector transmitted diseases. It is also an example to demonstrate that a
Foreword One way and another modern society has become highly medicated. On the one hand thereis the daily round of prescription medicines issued by National Health Service doctors and otherprescribing clinicians and an unknown level of prescribing from the private sector. On the otherhand there is the huge use of lay medication through over-the-counter purchases at pharmaciesand the informal u