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1. Introduction
2. The transmission cycle
3. Worm's emergence
4. Removing the worm
5. Preventing the worm from breaking
6. When immersed in water
7. The larvae swim freely in the water
8. Cyclops
9. Cycle is completion- drinking water with cyclops
10. The history of Guinea worm
11. William Dampier
12. James Africanus Horton
13. Epidemiology
14. Distribution of Guinea worm (GW)
15. Seasonality of Guinea worm emergence
16. The rainy season in the Sahel
17. The dry season in the forest zone
18. Eradicability of Guinea worm
19. Countries that eradicated the worm
20. Interventions: cyclopicide (Temephos)
21. Problem of technical fixes
22. Endemic village water sources in Burkina Faso
23. Problems with Temephos
24. Intervention: water supply
25. Guinea worm can be prevented easily
26. Putting safe water in the village is not enough
27. Guinea worm and village size in Zou Province
28. Hands pumps and Guinea worm in Burkina Faso
29. High incidence in Sanmatenga Province
30. Hand pumps and people location in Boussouma
31. Access to safe water Boussouma, Burkina Faso
32. Certain constrains about water supply
33. Intervention: health education (HE)
34. Impact of boreholes and health education
35. A health educator teaching how to filter water
36. A village health worker on a training course
37. A villager in Mauritania making a pipe-filter
38. A village health worker in Burkina
39. Getting the message across
40. A sign of success
41. Boulli Nabas
42. Boulli Nabas and health
43. Television and health education
44. The village volunteer
45. Community based surveillance
46. Characteristics of community based surveillance
47. Significant risk factors for Guinea worm
48. Community-based surveillance in Africa
49. Rewards for village volunteers
50. The supervisor
51. Mapping the villages
52. Results of the eradication effort
53. Evaluation results
54. Evaluation of Burkina (1)
55. Evaluation of Burkina (2)
56. HE and knowledge of GW prevention in Niger
57. HE and knowledge of GW prevention in Niger (2)
58. Dracunculiases in Ghana, 1989-2004
59. Reasons for Ghana's poor performance
60. Results of Ghana evaluation in 4 problem districts
61. The next phase
62. Classical approach
63. Case containment strategy
64. Detecting the worm before it emerges
65. Case containment
66. Treating the Guinea worm lesion
67. Learning how to bandage the lesion
68. The satisfied patients
69. The importance of collaboration
70. After we get rid of the worms
71. Children's birth registration
72. Existing community-based surveillance systems
73. Successful community-based surveillance

Topics Covered

• Natural History
• Transmission cycle
• History
• Epidemiology
• Eradicability
• Interventions
• Cyclopicide
• Water supply
• Health education
• Community-based surveillance
• Evaluation results
• Sensitivity of surveillance
• Ghana's poor performance
• The next phase
• Case containment
• Integrated surveillance

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• Clinical Practice

Therapeutic Areas:

• Infectious Diseases

Talk Citation

Cairncross, S. (2011, July 31). Turning the worm: the eradication of Guinea worm disease in west Africa [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bs/2057/.
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Publication History

• Published on July 31, 2011

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Sandy Cairncross has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.