{"id":1363452,"date":"2021-08-30T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T11:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sante.gouvne.org\/?p=1363452"},"modified":"2021-10-12T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T10:39:47","slug":"elimination-de-la-transmission-de-lonchocercose-ou-cecite-des-rivieres-au-niger-une-premiere-africaine-le-niger-est-le-premier-pays-dafrique-a-declarer-lelimination-de-lonchocercose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msppas.ne\/?p=1363452","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9limination de la transmission de l\u2019onchocercose ou c\u00e9cit\u00e9 des rivi\u00e8res au Niger Une premi\u00e8re africaine : le Niger est le premier pays d’Afrique \u00e0 d\u00e9clarer l’\u00e9limination de l’onchocercose"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c9limination de la transmission de l\u2019onchocercose ou c\u00e9cit\u00e9 des rivi\u00e8res au Niger<\/strong>
\nUne premi\u00e8re africaine : le Niger est le premier pays d’Afrique \u00e0 d\u00e9clarer l’\u00e9limination de l’onchocercose<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c9tape majeure franchie par l’\u00e9quipe nationale de lutte contre l’onchocercose au Niger,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0une fiert\u00e9 Nationale et africaine <\/strong><\/p>\n

Apr\u00e8s les travaux sa r\u00e9union tenue \u00e0 Niamey\u00a0 du 25 au 26 ao\u00fbt 2021, le Comit\u00e9 consultatif des experts\u00a0 pour l\u2019\u00e9limination de l’onchocercose a inform\u00e9 le ministre de la Sant\u00e9 publique de la Population et des Affaires Sociales\u00a0 que le Programme National de lutte contre\u00a0 l’onchocercose a atteint avec succ\u00e8s son objectif d’interrompre d\u00e9finitivement la transmission de cette importante infection dermatologique et oculaire au Niger.<\/p>\n

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Cette r\u00e9alisation du Programme nig\u00e9rien en charge de la lutte contre cette infestation parasitaire est non seulement un succ\u00e8s majeur pour le Niger mais \u00e9galement une r\u00e9ussite pour le continent africain car \u00a0\u00e9tant le premier pays d’end\u00e9mie de l’onchocercose en Afrique \u00e0 atteindre cet\u00a0 important objectif programmatique,<\/p>\n

Il s’agit d’une r\u00e9alisation majeure qui contribue de mani\u00e8re \u00a0significative aux objectifs de d\u00e9veloppement durable des Nations Unies et aux cibles de la feuille de route MTN de l’Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9.<\/p>\n

L’onchocercose, est une infection caus\u00e9e par un ver filaire qui provoque la c\u00e9cit\u00e9, une d\u00e9figuration de la peau, des d\u00e9mangeaisons intol\u00e9rables, tant de contraintes \u00a0inqui\u00e9tantes qui ont \u00e9loign\u00e9 les gens des terres fertiles car le vecteur qui est une petite\u00a0 mouche noire appel\u00e9e simulie \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0se reproduit dans les rivi\u00e8res qui arrosent ces terres \u00a0agricoles. .<\/p>\n

En 1976, quelque 500 000 personnes au Niger \u00e9taient infect\u00e9es ou du moins risquaient de l’\u00eatre. En 2002, l\u2019onchocercose n\u2019\u00e9tait plus un probl\u00e8me de sant\u00e9 publique mais le risque demeurait pr\u00e9sent\u00a0.Maintenant \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0vingt ans plus tard, tous ceux qui vivent dans les zones pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment touch\u00e9es peuvent vivre sans craindre d’\u00eatre infect\u00e9s et de souffrir des effets terribles de cette maladie. Les personnes et \u00a0leurs enfants ne conna\u00eetront jamais la maladie et l’infection. Ce succ\u00e8s est venu apr\u00e8s une longue lutte contre cette maladie qui a commenc\u00e9 il y a plus \u00a0de 40 ans avec un Programme Africain de \u00a0lutte contre la mouche noire dans 11 pays de l\u2019Afrique de l’Ouest dont le Niger.<\/p>\n

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Bien que le Niger a vaincu cette maladie par la seule lutte antivectoriellle, les malades d\u00e9pist\u00e9s \u00e9taient trait\u00e9 cas par cas d\u00e8s 1987 gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un don d’ivermectine,offert par Merck & Co. Il s\u2019agit d\u2019un m\u00e9dicament antiparasitaire qui a fait ses preuves dans la lutte contre cette maladie. Du fait de la coend\u00e9micit\u00e9 avec la filariose lymphatique, cette mol\u00e9cule a \u00e9t\u00e9 aussi utilis\u00e9 en traitement de masse dans les districts jadis end\u00e9miques de l\u2019onchocercose.<\/p>\n

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Ce sont pr\u00e8s de deux millions de personnes qui recevaient r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement et gratuitement ce m\u00e9dicament d\u2019efficacit\u00e9 connue. . Cette distribution de masse a \u00e9t\u00e9 conduite avec succ\u00e8s gr\u00e2ce au programme, des centaines d\u2019agent de sant\u00e9 des r\u00e9gions de Dosso et Tillab\u00e9ri , des districts sanitaires de T\u00e9ra, Bankilar\u00e9 , Gotheye, Say,Torodi, Kollo, Boboye, Falmeye, Dioundiou,,Gaya et enfin des milliers de distributeurs communautaires en collaboration avec les communaut\u00e9s infect\u00e9es.<\/p>\n

Les r\u00e9sultats de ce derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es ont \u00e9t\u00e9 obtenu gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 l\u2019appui technique et financier programme Reaching the Last Mile de The End Fund (un h\u00e9ritage du prince h\u00e9ritier d’Abou Dhabi), ainsi que par l’USAID, l\u2019OMS, Hell\u00ean Keller Intl, et bien autres partenaires.<\/p>\n

Cette d\u00e9cision du comit\u00e9 consultatif d’experts du Niger d\u00e9clenche une s\u00e9quence d’\u00e9v\u00e9nements qui, on l’esp\u00e8re et on s’y attend, conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9claration formelle du Niger comme \u00e9tant exempt de transmission de l’onchocercose par l’Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9. Ces mesures officielles sont celles que quatre pays, tous d’Am\u00e9rique latine, ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 suivies lorsqu’ils ont tous r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 \u00e9liminer la transmission de cette infection, et il est pleinement attendu que le Niger devienne le cinqui\u00e8me pays au monde \u00e0 atteindre ce statut important, et comme dit plus haut, le premier en Afrique.<\/p>\n

River Blindness\u00a0 (Onchocerciasis) transmission eliminated in Niger<\/strong><\/p>\n

An African first: Niger the first country in Africa to declare elimination of onchocerciasis<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Major step achieved by Niger National Onchocerciasis team<\/strong><\/p>\n

At a meeting held in Niamey on August 26th the Niger Onchocerciasis Expert Advisory Committee advised the Minister of Health (?\u00a0 Ministry of Health) that the national onchocerciasis elimination program has successfully achieved their target of permanently interrupting\u00a0 the transmission of this important dermatological and ocular infection in Niger.<\/p>\n

This achievement by the Niger Republic Onchocerciasis National Program <\/strong>\u00a0is not only a major success for Niger but, as this is the first onchocerciasis endemic country in Africa to reach this major programmatic goal , is also major success for the continent of\u00a0 Africa. It is a major achievement that contributes in a major way to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and to the targets of the World Health Organisation\u2019s NTD Road Map.<\/p>\n

Onchocerciasis, is an infection caused by a filarial worm causes blindness, skin disfiguration and intolerable itching, disturbing conditions that have driven people away from the valuable fertile lands as the black flies vector that transmits this parasitic infection\u00a0 breed in the rivers that water these farming areas. In 1976 some 500 000 people in Niger were infected or at least a risk of becoming infected, now\u00a0 twenty- one ears later all those living in the previously affected areas can live free of worry that the will be infected and suffer the horrible medical conditions of the past, and their children will never know of the disease and the infection. This success has come after a long fight against this disease that began\u00a0almost 50 years ago with a black fly control program in 11 countries (including Niger) in West Africa known as the Onchocerciasis Control Program (OCP). Merck & Co donated the parasite killing drug ivermectin in 1987 and the Niger Onchocerciasis team has manage the complicated task of distributing this drug in over 2 ,000,000 individual treatments in the 7 ears since the Niger NTD program began. The districts of T\u00e9ra, Bankilar\u00e9, Gotheye, Say,Torodi, Kollo, Boboye, Falmeye, Dioundiou and Gaya was concerned.<\/p>\n

This enormous task, known as Mass Drug Administration,\u00a0 has been achieved by Dr Salissou and his team together with health workers, drug distributors in collaboration with the infected communities. This effort in recent years funded and supported with technical assistance\u00a0 by\u00a0 The End Fund\u2019s Reaching the Last Mile Program (a Crown-Prince\u00a0 of Abu Dhabi legacy), as well as supported by USAID,WHO, Hellen Keller Intl, amongst\u00a0 others.<\/p>\n

This decision by Niger Advisory Expert committee activates a sequence of events that will, it is hoped and\u00a0 expected, lead to formal declaration\u00a0 of Niger being free of onchocerciasis transmission by the World Health Organisation. These official steps are those that four countries, all in Latin America, have\u00a0 previously followed when they all succeeded in eliminating transmission of this infection, and\u00a0 it full expected that Niger will become the fifth country in the world to achieve this important status, and as said above, the first in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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