Mapping the Burden of Visual Impairment Due to Onchocerciasis Infection in Central Africa from 1990 to 2019

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Abbreviation

BVI, blindness and vision loss; GBD, global burden of disease; YLDs, years lived with disability; MDA, mass drug administration; CDTI, Community-Directed Treatment with Ivermectin; REMO, Rapid Epidemiological Mapping of Onchocerciasis; APOC, African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control; ASR, age-standardized rate; UIs, uncertainty intervals; AAPC, average annual percentage changes; CI, confidence interval.

Data Sharing Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the Global Health Data Exchange (http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool), which were used under license for this study, and so are publicly available. All data associated with this paper will be made available upon reasonable request from corresponding author (LL).

Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate

The protocol for this study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People`s Hospital (KY-Q-2022-495-01).

Disclosure

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Funding

This study was supported by Guangdong Provincial People`s Hospital Supporting Fund for Talent Program (Grant No. KY0120220263), Health Commission of Shanxi Province (No. 2020146), the Youth Talent Support Program of Liaoning Province (XLYC2203192), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 82003882), and Science and Technology Department of Shanxi Province (No. 202103021223014).