Open AccessKathmandu Declaration on Cysticercosis : Towards Eradication
Author(s) -
Basant Pant,
Sharad Onta,
Sushil Nath Pyakurel,
Biraj Karmacharya,
Bimal Kumar Nirmal,
Ana Flisser,
Marshall W. Lightowlers
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annapurna journal of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2795-1502
pISSN - 2773-8019
DOI - 10.52910/ajhs.20
Subject(s) - declaration , cysticercosis , government (linguistics) , action (physics) , theme (computing) , medicine , political science , public relations , law , pathology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , operating system
In December 2018, an international conference on cysticercosis was held in Kathmandu,Nepal with the theme, “Towards Eradication”. With the collaboration and participation of human-health and animal-health related organizations, the culmination of this event was the Kathmandu Declaration on cysticercosisrealizing an urgency to take action for its prevention and management.Of the 10 points mentioned in the declaration, all of the keynote speakers and participants on the conference endorsed the activities on commitment for eliminating cysticercosis, urgedthe government to internalize its primary responsibility and role in controlling cysticercosis, and called for the stakeholders for multisectoral collaboration. The authors believe that this declaration and further action definitely strive towards meeting the theme of the conference to eradicate cysticercosis with