Kathmandu Declaration on Cysticercosis : Towards Eradication

Basant  Pant; Sharad  Onta; Sushil  Nath Pyakurel; Biraj  Man Karmacharya; Bimal  Kumar Nirmal; Ana  Flisser; Marshall  Lightowlers

doi:10.52910/ajhs.20

Authors

Basant Pant Department of Neurosurgery, Annapurna Neurological Institute & Allied Sciences, Maitighar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Sharad Onta Nepal Public Health Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal
Sushil Nath Pyakurel Ministry of Health & Population, Kathmandu, Nepal
Biraj Man Karmacharya Department of Community Medicine, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Kathmandu, Nepal
Bimal Kumar Nirmal Department of Livestock Services, Kathmandu, Nepal
Ana Flisser Department of Microbiology & Parasitology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Marshall Lightowlers Department of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52910/ajhs.20

Keywords:

Cysticercosis; Eradication, HCC, Conference

Abstract

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