Seventh meeting of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis: reaching the vision by scaling up scaling down and reaching out

摘要

This report summarizes the 7^th meeting of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GAELF), Washington DC, November 18–19, 2012. The theme, “A Future Free of Lymphatic Filariasis: Reaching the Vision by Scaling Up, Scaling Down and Reaching Out”, emphasized new strategies and partnerships necessary to reach the 2020 goal of elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public-health problem.