WHO Guidelines on the verification of elimination of human onchocerciasis

he Department for Evidence-based medicine and Clinical Epirdemiology will provide the WHO with assistance in the development of a set of guidelines on the verification of elimination of human onchocerciasis. This is an update of a previous guideline published in 2001. Specifically, the department will help with the formulation of the PICO questions; perform a systematic search and identify relevant studies; perform individual study abstraction and quality assessment; and produce GRADE evidence profiles for the body of evidence.