Abstract
The Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was established in 2000 after the adoption of a World Health Assembly resolution in 1997 that called for member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) to eliminate lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem. The condition is caused by one of three filarial parasites. Wuchereria bancrofti, the most common of the three, causes 90% of lymphatic filariasis infections worldwide and is transmitted by several genera of mosquitoes — anopheles, aedes, mansonia, and culex. The strategy, known as preventive chemotherapy, is annual treatment by means of mass drug administration of a two-drug .
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