OCP APOC Historical Timeline 1995 2013 88853 Africa Programme for WHO Regional Strategic Plan for NTDs Onchocerciasis Control in the Africa Region adopted by all 47 1968 1973 1980 (APOC) launched with 19 countries outside Health Ministers of sub-Saharan Africa APOC and its partners treat 100 million Tunis meeting PAG report recommends Resistance of blackflies the purview of OCP in recommends a 20-year aerial to temephos identified people in 31 countries in Africa partnership with the program for larviciding program to WHO (executing agency), onchocerciasis minimize economic and 2009 Beyond 2015 control in West social harms of savannah 1987 World Bank (fiscal agent), Planning to other development Africa onchocerciasis Ivermectin introduced Proof of principle of onchocerciasis donors, and NGDOs transition to the for control of ocular elimination with ivermectin treatment in Programme for 7 countries at the morbidity hyperendemic foci of Mali and Senegal the Elimination of Ghana meeting agree Neglected Diseases with WHO (executing 1984 1994 2006 1969 agency) and World Mid-Term Review in Africa (PENDA) Bank, FAO, and with elimination as Several African OCP expands endorses OCP APOC extended through 2015 and UNDP (cosponsoring the priority goal and governments to include control approach and enlarged to include ex-OCP countries use of community agencies) to initiate request southern areas emphasizes community- treatment to reach river blindness assistance to in Benin, launch control control in the Côte d’Ivoire, based distribution of ivermectin with 2002 all preventable NTDs Volta River Basin program Ghana and some rotational use of OCP completes Togo larviciding its operations 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 1974 1983 1988 1992 2000 1970 Onchocerciasis Trials with Commitment NGDO APOC and partners treat Preparatory Control Programme ivermectin by Merck to Coordination over 20 million people Assistance to (OCP) begins begin donate as much Group for in 14 countries Governments larviciding with ivermectin Ivermectin (PAG) mission temephos in seven (Mectizan) as Distribution and 2007 established countries necessary for as Onchocerciasis APOC and its partners reach to collect long as necessary Control more than 50 million people evidence for a established multinational 1972 with 7 member in 31 countries control Robert McNamara, 1989 organizations 2011 program President of the 17th Joint Action Forum gives priority to Expansion of the OCP to include Western World Bank, launches onchocerciasis elimination and recommends Mali, Guinea, Senegal and Sierra Leone a campaign to control 1) treatment of all preventable neglected tropical river blindness Strategy developed to combine 1997 diseases (NTDs); and 2) program extension to 2025 larviciding and ivermectin distribution OCP and APOC adopt the Community 2012 1990 Directed Treatment London Declaration makes donated drugs available for External review confirms with ivermectin NTDs that can be prevented by mass drug administration; success of strategy (CDTi) strategy WHO launches NTD Elimination Roadmap