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Table 2 Onchocerciasis endemic countries and their shared cross-border locations (Source: [126])

From: Reaching the last mile: main challenges relating to and recommendations to accelerate onchocerciasis elimination in Africa

Country

Shared cross-border endemic location with

Angola

DRC

Benin

Togo, Nigeria, Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger

Cameroon

Nigeria, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, CAR

CAR

Cameroon, Chad, South Sudan

Chad

Cameroon, CAR, South Sudan

Congo-Brazzaville

Cameroon, Gabon, DRC

Cote d’Ivoire

Liberia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali

DRC

Uganda, Angola, CAR, Congo, South Sudan, Zambia

Equatorial Guinea

Cameroon, Gabon

Ethiopia

Sudan, South Sudan

Gabon

Cameroon, Congo

Ghana

Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo

Guinea

Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia

Guinea Bissau

Senegal, Guinea

Kenya

South Sudan , Tanzania

Liberia

Sierra Leone, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire

Malawi

Mozambique

Mali

Senegal, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger

Mozambique

Malawi, Tanzania

Nigeria

Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger

Niger

Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Mali

Senegal

Guinea-Bissau, Guinea

Sierra Leone

Guinea, Liberia

South Sudan

Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan

Sudan

Ethiopia, South Sudan

Togo

Benin, Ghana, Burkina Faso

Tanzania

Mozambique, Burundi, Kenya

Uganda

DRC, South Sudan

  1. CAR Central Africa Republic, DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo