That's Sia isn't it?
Nice.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/
Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective
Discovered in the late-1970s, the pioneering drug ivermectin, a dihydro derivative of avermectin—originating solely from a single microorganism isolated at the Kitasato Intitute, Tokyo, Japan from Japanese soil—has had an immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people throughout the world. Originally introduced as a veterinary drug, it kills a wide range of internal and external parasites in commercial livestock and companion animals. It was quickly discovered to be ideal in combating two of the world’s most devastating and disfiguring diseases which have plagued the world’s poor throughout the tropics for centuries. It is now being used free-of-charge as the sole tool in campaigns to eliminate both diseases globally. It has also been used to successfully overcome several other human diseases and new uses for it are continually being found. This paper looks in depth at the events surrounding ivermectin’s passage from being a huge success in Animal Health into its widespread use in humans, a development which has led many to describe it as a “wonder” drug.
https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/guidelines/overseas-guidelines.html
Vaccination Program for U.S.-bound Refugees
All Middle Eastern, Asian, North African, Latin American, and Caribbean refugees should receive presumptive therapy with:
Albendazole, single dose of 400 mg (200 mg for children 12-23 months)
AND
Ivermectin, two doses 200 mcg/Kg orally once a day for 2 days before departure to the United States.
All African refugees who did not originate from or reside in countries where Loa loa infection is endemic (Box 1) should receive presumptive therapy with:
Albendazole, single dose of 400 mg (200 mg for children 12-23 months)
AND
Ivermectin, two doses 200 mcg/Kg orally once a day for 2 days
AND
Praziquantel, 40 mg/kg, which may be divided in two doses before refugees depart for the United States.
All sub-Saharan African refugees who originated from or resided in countries where Loa loa infection is endemic (Box 1) should receive presumptive therapy with:
Albendazole, single dose of 400 mg (200 mg for children 12-23 months)
AND
Praziquantel, 40 mg/kg, which may be divided in two doses before departure to the United States.
Refugees from Loa loa-endemic countries (Box 1) in Africa should not receive presumptive ivermectin for strongyloidiasis prior to departure. Management of Strongyloides should be deferred until arrival in the United States, unless Loa loa is excluded by reviewing a daytime (10 AM to 2 PM) Giemsa-stained blood smear. Deferral of treatment for Strongyloides until after the refugee arrives in the United States is acceptable. Guidance is available for management of Strongyloides following arrival in the United States in the Domestic Intestinal Parasite Screening Guidance.
https://streamable.com/3ae6l2
https://fortune.com/2021/09/03/why-satanists-may-be-the-last-hope-to-take-down-texass-abortion-bill/
Why Satanists may be the last hope to take down Texas’s abortion bill
The state of Texas, with approval from the U.S. Supreme Court, instituted the most draconian set of anti-abortion laws in the last 50 years this Tuesday. While pro-choice advocates scramble to save what’s left of Roe v. Wade, their salvation may come from an unexpected place: The Satanic Temple.
The nontheistic religious group, based out of Salem, Massachusetts, has filed a letter with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration arguing that their members should be allowed to access abortion pills without regulatory action. The temple is attempting to use its status as a religious organization to claim its right to abortion as a faith-based right.
The group argues that they should have access to the abortion pills Misoprostol and Mifepristone for religious use through the The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) which was created to allow Native Americans access to peyote for religious rituals. Under these rules, the Temple is arguing that they should be granted those same rights to use abortifacients for their own religious purposes.
“I am sure Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton—who famously spends a good deal of his time composing press releases about Religious Liberty issues in other states—will be proud to see that Texas’s robust Religious Liberty laws, which he so vociferously champions, will prevent future Abortion Rituals from being interrupted by superfluous government restrictions meant only to shame and harass those seeking an abortion," wrote Satanic Temple spokesperson, Lucien Greaves in a statement.
Satanists hold bodily autonomy and science sacrosanct, he said, and abortion “rituals” are an important part of those beliefs. “The battle for abortion rights is largely a battle of competing religious viewpoints, and our viewpoint that the nonviable fetus is part of the impregnated host is fortunately protected under Religous Liberty laws,” he added.
Last year the Supreme Court refused to hear a case from Satanists to overturn Missouri’s abortion laws, but the group is hoping that an appeal to the federal government could make a difference.
In the past few years, the Temple of Satan, which has about 300,000 followers, protested a Ten Commandments monument erected outside of the Arkansas Capitol by erecting their own statue, a bronze satanic goat monster Baphomet next to it. In the Illinois Capitol rotunda, they were able to install a statue of an arm holding an apple with a snake coiled around it next to a Christmas nativity scene and a Hanukkah menorah.
"The State of Illinois is required by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution to allow temporary, public displays in the state capitol so long as these displays are not paid for by taxpayer dollars,” said a sign next to the statue. “Because the first floor of the Capitol Rotunda is a public place, state officials cannot legally censor the content of speech or displays. The United States Supreme Court has held that public officials may legally impose reasonable time, place and manner restrictions regarding displays and speeches, but no regulation can be based on the content of the speech."
In spite of its name, the Temple of Satan largely stands as an activist institution, with the intent to fight the proliferation of religion in U.S. policy and law.
>https://fortune.com/2021/09/03/why-satanists-may-be-the-last-hope-to-take-down-texass-abortion-bill/
<By Nicole Goodkind
https://fortune.com/author/nicole-goodkind/
https://twitter.com/NicoleGoodkind
NFTs are the stupidest thing ever
https://twitter.com/NicoleGoodkind/status/1433922080488239110
While pro-choice advocates scramble to save what’s left of Roe v. Wade, their salvation may come from an unexpected place: The Satanic Temple.
https://twitter.com/NicoleGoodkind/status/1433899612801220610
It’s so obvious that the new year starts in the fall, I don’t get why Romans/Christians felt the need to change it.
>the Temple is arguing that they should be granted those same rights to use abortifacients for their own religious purposes.
https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/rrr-fundraiser
The Satanic Temple Demands FDA Grant Unrestricted Access to Abortion Drugs
Lawyers for TST sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to request that TST be able to access abortifacients without being subjected to the agency’s regulations. Normally, access to Misoprostol (a first-trimester abortifacient) requires a prescription, and Mifepristone(the second drug in the medical abortion regimen) can only be obtained through an approved prescriber and can only be dispensed in accordance with specific guidelines. However, TST has requested that we can directly supply Satanists who wish to undergo an abortion in a religious context with these abortifacients.
>Satanists who wish to undergo an abortion in a religious context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kkUSRU45hM
Religious Reproductive Rights - A Year in Review
As The Satanic Temple moves into the next phase of our Religious Reproductive Rights campaign, we take a look back at our accomplishments and challenges over the last year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_P-Orridge
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Born in Manchester, P-Orridge developed an early interest in art, occultism, and the avant-garde while at Solihull School. After dropping out of studies at the University of Hull, P-Orridge moved into a counter-cultural commune in London and adopted Genesis P-Orridge as their pseudonym. On returning to Hull, P-Orridge founded COUM Transmissions with Cosey Fanni Tutti, and in 1973 they relocated to London. COUM's confrontational performance work, dealing with such subjects as sex work, pornography, serial killers, and occultism, represented a concerted attempt to challenge societal norms and attracted the attention of the national press. COUM's 1976 Prostitution show at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts was particularly vilified by tabloids, gaining them the moniker of the "wreckers of civilisation." P-Orridge's band, Throbbing Gristle, grew out of COUM, and were active from 1975 to 1981 as pioneers in the industrial music genre. In 1981, P-Orridge co-founded Psychic TV, an experimental band that from 1988 onward came under the increasing influence of acid house.
In 1981, P-Orridge co-founded Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, an informal occult order influenced by chaos magic and experimental music. P-Orridge was often seen as the group's leader, but rejected that position, and left the group in 1991. Amid the Satanic ritual abuse hysteria, a 1992 Channel 4 documentary accused P-Orridge of sexually abusing children, resulting in a police investigation. P-Orridge was subsequently cleared and Channel 4 retracted their allegation. As a result of the incident, P-Orridge left the United Kingdom for the United States and settled in New York City. There, P-Orridge married Jacqueline Breyer, later known as Lady Jaye, in 1995, and together they embarked on the Pandrogeny Project, an attempt to unite as a "pandrogyne", or single entity, through the use of surgical body modification to physically resemble one another. P-Orridge continued with this project of body modification after Lady Jaye's 2007 death. Although involved in reunions of both Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV in the 2000s, P-Orridge retired from music to focus on other artistic mediums in 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj9ecuAUjVE
The Satanic Temple’s Religious Abortion Ritual
In accordance with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), first trimester abortions are now exempt from unnecessary regulations for all individuals practicing The Satanic Temple's religious abortion ritual.
https://announcement.thesatanictemple.com/rrr-campaign41280784
The Satanic abortion ritual provides spiritual comfort and affirms bodily autonomy, self-worth, and freedom from coercive forces with the affirmation of TST's Seven Tenets. The ritual is not intended to convince a person to have an abortion. Instead, it sanctifies the abortion process by instilling confidence and protecting bodily rights when undergoing the safe and scientific procedure.
Examples of requirements that cannot be enforced on Satanists are:
Mandatory Waiting Periods
The Requirement that Practitioners Withhold Certain Medical Information
Compulsory Counseling Prior to Abortion
Required Reading Materials
Medically Unnecessary Sonograms
Mandatory Listening to the Fetal Heartbeat
Compulsory Burial or Cremation of Fetal Remains
Prior to receiving any anesthetic or sedation, look at your reflection to be reminded of your personhood and your responsibility to yourself. Focus on your intent. Take deep breaths, and make yourself comfortable. When you are ready, say the Third Tenet and Fifth Tenet aloud. You may now undergo the surgery. After the surgery is completed and any anesthetic has worn off, return to your reflection and recite your personal affirmation. Feel doubts dissipating and your confidence growing as you have just undertaken a decision that affirms your autonomy and free will. The religious abortion ritual is now complete.
Immediately before taking the medication(s) to terminate your pregnancy, look at your reflection to be reminded of your personhood and responsibility to yourself. Focus on your intent, take deep breaths, and make yourself comfortable. When ready, read the Third Tenet aloud to begin the ritual. After swallowing the medication(s), take another deep breath and recite the Fifth Tenet. After you have passed the embryo, return to your reflection, and recite the personal affirmation. Feel doubts dissipating and your confidence growing as you have just undertaken a decision that affirms your autonomy and free will. The religious abortion ritual is now complete.
Tenet III. One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.
Tenet V. Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
Personal Affirmation.
By my body,
my blood
By my will it is done.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0465/files/Abortion_Ritual_Procedure_1.pdf?v=1621515426
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0465/files/Religious_Abortion_Exemption_Letter.pdf?v=1621515132
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/
Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective
>It felt like the precipice a year ago
https://nypost.com/2021/09/04/usa-today-reporter-slammed-after-false-biden-report/
USA Today reporter slammed for playing ‘victim’ after false Biden report
USA Today’s fact-checkers need a fact-checker.
USA Today’s Daniel Funke, the reporter behind the newspaper’s botched report on President Biden’s watch fiasco has been hammered by critics on social media for playing “the victim.”
Funke originally reported in a “fact-check” Wednesday that accounts of President Biden checking his watch during the solemn transfer ceremony honoring the 13 U.S. service members killed at the Kabul airport terrorist attack was “partly false.” Funke insisted that it occurred “only after” the ceremony.
But the next day USA Today issued a correction admitting Biden checked his watch “multiple times” during the ceremony, as The Post accurately reported on its front page. However it changed its ruling from “partly false” to “missing context.”
Funke then took to Twitter on Friday offering an apology — of sorts.
“As many of you already know, this story has been corrected. Biden checked his watch multiple times during the ceremony. I regret the error,” Funke wrote. “Journalists and fact-checkers are human (yes, even me!) We make mistakes. When we do, we correct them and try to make it right.”
After sharing a link to USA Today’s fact-checking guidelines explaining the “principles we try to uphold,” Funke wrote, “It’s easy to dunk on journalists when we get things wrong. I get it – to many, we’re just another name on a screen. But behind that screen is a person trying to do their best.”
Some gave Funke credit for his mea culpa. But others suggested it was another liberal-media attempt to protect Biden.
“With all due respect, Mr. Funke, your ‘fact check’ carried a direct implication that grieving, gold star families had LIED with their first-hand testimony of the events. Keep your ‘we regret the error’ and apologize, unequivocally, directly TO THEM,” radio host Larry O’Connor told Funke.
“I’d have more sympathy if the ‘fact checking industry’ hadn’t viewed the Afghanistan crisis as a time to protect Biden instead of fact-checking the admin’s lies and obfuscation. We have unknown numbers of Americans stranded and they’re focused on conservative social posts,” GOP strategist Matt Whitlock tweeted.
“Daniel figured out who the true victim is in the saga of the ISIS-K suicide bombing of U.S. service members,” Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy quipped.
“You didn’t get something wrong. You purposefully and willfully fact checked Gold Star families instead of the President. You did exactly what you think you’re paid to do, which is protect Jos Biden and his party,” Spectator contributor Stephen Miller tweeted.
Said Gannett, USA Today’s parent company, in a statement about the fiasco: “We corrected the fact check story as soon as we realized it was erroneous and were fully transparent about the inaccuracies. Our mission is to report the facts as accurately as possible with no political agenda.”
https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1433873268856000514
https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-child-trafficking-27d93a340c4834d497eb36e22bb72f42
Afghan evacuation raises concerns about child trafficking
U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused.
U.S. officials at intake centers in the United Arab Emirates and in Wisconsin have identified numerous incidents in which Afghan girls have been presented to authorities as the “wives” of much older men. While child marriage is not uncommon in Afghanistan, the U.S. has strict policies against human trafficking that include prosecutions for offenders and sanctions for countries that don’t crack down on it.
One internal document seen by The Associated Press says the State Department has sought “urgent guidance” from other agencies after purported child brides were brought to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. Another document, described to the AP by officials familiar with it, says Afghan girls at a transit site in Abu Dhabi have alleged they have been raped by older men they were forced to marry in order to escape Afghanistan.
The State Department had no immediate comment on the documents or the veracity of the details in them. Officials say that they take all such allegations seriously but that many of them are anecdotal and difficult to prove, particularly amid the crush of Afghan evacuees at multiple locations in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.
An Aug. 27 situation report sent to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad as well as military command centers in Florida points to potential issues involving young girls and older men, some of whom claim to have more than one wife at Fort McCoy, a sprawling 60,000-acre (243-square-kilometer) Army base in Wisconsin. Relevant portions of the document, titled “Afghanistan Task Force SitRep No. 63,” were obtained by the AP.
“Intake staff at Fort McCoy reported multiple cases of minor females who presented as ‘married’ to adult Afghan men, as well as polygamous families,” the document says. “Department of State has requested urgent guidance.”
There was no immediate indication from the military or from the departments of homeland security and health and human services, which run the facility, that such guidance had been received.
At the same time, U.S. officials in the United Arab Emirates have expressed similar concerns, sending a diplomatic cable to Washington warning that some young Afghan girls had been forced into marriages in order to escape Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.
Officials familiar with the cable say it describes allegations by several girls at the Humanitarian City in Abu Dhabi that they had been sexually assaulted by their “husbands” and seeks guidance on how to handle such cases. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal communications.
https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1433953089116155906
https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1433953090579927043
1 in 3 Afghan evacuees Biden has already brought to the U.S. need “additional screening” while 100 have been flagged for potential terror ties.
“Other evacuees who are currently being evaluated in the D.C. area were found to have been deported from the U.S. previously for past criminal offenses.”
(And remember, vast majority of evacuees have no lawful status to enter US—Biden just flew them in regardless)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/3/dhs-confirms-people-watch-lists-among-those-evacua/
DHS confirms people on watch lists among those evacuated from Afghanistan
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that his department has flagged some Afghan evacuees as potential security risks and blocked them from reaching the U.S., and he vowed to make America’s safety the core of the airlift.
Mr. Mayorkas, in his first briefing on the airlift, said those who reach the U.S. will be resettled in the country, and said it’s a commitment the U.S. owes to those who helped the American effort or who face dangers from the Taliban takeover of their home country.
He confirmed reports that people have been flagged as security risks and blocked. But he didn’t reveal what has happened to those people.
“We are working with our international allies to address the disposition of those individuals,” he said.
Multiple news reports have said authorities matched as many as 100 evacuated Afghans to identities on government watch lists. None of those appeared to have reached the U.S, the reports said.
Mr. Mayorkas said his department, which has been designated the lead of a vast government operation to bring people to the country, is overseeing multiple layers of security checks, including at military bases overseas, while people are on flights to the U.S. and again when they arrive at airports.
The Washington Times reported this week about one Afghan man who had a rape conviction and previous deportation from the U.S. but who did make it onto a flight and into the country. He was flagged by Customs and Border Protection officers at Washington Dulles International Airport and is in a detention facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Mr. Mayorkas did not offer many new details about the population, repeating data other administration officials had already revealed about the number of people who have reached the U.S.
He declined to speculate on how many Afghans the country should expect to resettle, other than to say it would be more than 50,000. He said the numbers are still too “fluid” at this point, and the Biden administration still expects to facilitate more Afghans being able to leave, so any count now is premature.
He projected confidence in the mission, though.
“We can do this, and we can protect the American public, and we can pronounce through our actions the generosity and nobility of the American public,” he said.
More than 120,000 people were evacuated from Afghanistan, and 40,000 of them have reached the U.S.
Some were U.S. citizens, some were legal permanent residents of other nationalities, and some are Afghans who assisted the American military’s efforts and earned, or are on the path to earn, a special visa.
But Mr. Mayorkas said the country also is bringing in others, including “vulnerable Afghan women and girls, journalists and other constituencies that need our relief.”
He was unable to say how many are special visa holders and how many have been brought in using his humanitarian parole powers, though in a fact sheet issued later his department said “most” will be brought to the country through parole.
Their parole is good for two years and gives them a chance to seek a more permanent legal status such as claiming asylum.
Parolees will be issued work permits but will be subject to conditions such as going through medical screenings and vaccinations, and regular check-ins.
All new arrivals, including U.S. citizens, are being tested for COVID-19. The government is picking up the bill.
U.S. citizens and legal residents can head home once they clear testing. Parolees are encouraged to go to one of eight military bases where government employees are working to process them and provide them with adjustment assistance.
But Mr. Mayorkas indicated that was voluntary, and one congressman has told The Washington Times that some Afghans have walked off a base in Wisconsin.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2021/08/government-of-canada-announces-funding-for-covid-19-safe-voluntary-isolation-sites-in-ontario.html
Government of Canada Announces Funding for COVID-19 Safe Voluntary Isolation Sites in Ontario
“Protecting Canadians from COVID-19 and helping stop the spread is a community effort. The Safe Voluntary Isolation Sites Program supports municipalities across Canada, including these projects in Ontario, so they can assist residents with safe places for self-isolation.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/30/convicted-rapist-reached-us-afghan-evacuation-flig/
Convicted rapist reached the U.S. on Afghan evacuation flight
A man who had been convicted of rape and deported from the U.S. was allowed to board an Afghan evacuation flight and reach America, law enforcement sources say.
When American citizens were having trouble catching flights out of Kabul, Ghader Heydari made it on an Ethiopian Airlines charter flight for evacuees.
Border officials flagged the 47-year-old on his arrival at Washington Dulles International Airport. They appear to be the first to have spotted his criminal and immigration history and derailed his entry.
Heydari is being held at the Caroline Detention Facility in Bowling Green, Virginia, The Washington Times has learned.
“They are bringing far too many people in far too quickly to be able to effectively vet them,” said Ken Cuccinelli, a deputy secretary at Homeland Security in the Trump administration.
Heydari’s exact path to entry is not clear, though it’s unlikely he holds a Special Immigrant Visa. Those were reserved for Afghans who provided significant support for the U.S. in the war effort.
It’s also not likely he is a refugee, given his immigration history.
That leaves parole, a power the homeland security secretary has to grant admission to the U.S. in exceptional humanitarian cases. Most Afghans evacuated to the U.S. appear to be parolees rather than having official immigration status.
The Times has reached out for comment from the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection, the agency that mans the ports of entry, including Dulles.
A senior administration official briefing reporters last week said security checks were supposed to be completed outside the U.S.
“That happens at the transit hubs, and it happens before individuals are allowed into the United States,” the official said. “That’s, in particular, with the biometric and biographic security screenings that our colleagues in the intelligence community and law enforcement and other counterterrorism components of our government are doing.
“So that is where we are doing that work to ensure that however it is — whatever is happening on the ground at HKIA, before individuals are allowed into the United States, they receive that security vetting,” the official said, using the acronym for Hamid Karzai International Airport.
Either that process wasn’t followed in the case of Heydari or his rape conviction and deportation weren’t enough to keep him off the evacuee flight.
Heydari came to the U.S. as a refugee sometime in the previous century and was granted a green card in 2000.
A man whose name and age match Heydari‘s pleaded guilty to rape in Ada County, Idaho, in 2010. He served more than five years in a state prison and was released on supervision in December 2015, according to state records.
He was ordered deported by an immigration judge in 2016 and was removed in 2017.
When Heydari arrived in the U.S. on the evacuation flight, officials tried to persuade him to cancel his request to enter, formally known as withdrawal of application for admission, but he appears to have refused.
The U.S. ended its military mission Monday after evacuating more than 116,000 people since Aug. 14. Only a tiny fraction — 6,000 to 7,000 — were Americans. Hundreds of Americans who wanted to leave were stranded as the final flight departed, though U.S. officials said they had plans to help them.
Many of the evacuees were Afghans. Some, like Heydari, have been airlifted to the U.S. Others were taken to third countries for more processing.
Security analysts have warned of the danger involved with the massive airlift of people from Afghanistan to the U.S. and holes in vetting.
The airlift was billed as a chance to get Afghans who assisted the U.S. war effort out of the country as part of a promise for their help. Those Afghans are supposed to be eligible for the Special Immigrant Visa.
But the airlift turned into a free-for-all. Relatively few Afghans brought to the U.S. have been approved for SIVs or cleared as refugees. Most appear to have been entered under Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ power of parole, special permission that is supposed to be reserved for exceptional humanitarian cases.
Rep. Thomas P. Tiffany, Wisconsin Republican, toured Fort McCoy in his home state on Friday. Of the 2,000 Afghans being held there, not a single one was an SIV holder, he said.
“I still do not have a clear idea of the vetting process. They say that people are fully vetted, but we ask what does that mean? We take biometric data, those type of things, but I said what do you tie it back to?” Mr. Tiffany told The Washington Times.
Given that the Afghan government has fallen and the Taliban are now in charge, it’s not clear what access the U.S. has to verify records.
“We want to know what people’s history is, and I get the sense they’re just pushing these people through,” Mr. Tiffany said.
A lack of information was the same issue the U.S. faced during the Obama years when the administration vowed to welcome tens of thousands of Syrians escaping their country’s civil war but struggled to vet them with a government the U.S. was trying to topple.
Authorities have spotted some potential security risks among the Afghan evacuees.
More than 100 prospective SIV recipients were flagged as potential matches to names on U.S. intelligence watch lists, Defense One reported.
One man evacuated from Kabul has potential ties to the Islamic State group. That person was evacuated from Afghanistan to another country to undergo vetting. Unlike Heydari, he was not brought onto U.S. soil.
https://i.imgur.com/P5r5SYY.png
can someone dig up
Phares CR, Kapella BK, Doney AC, et al. Presumptive treatment to reduce imported malaria among refugees from East Africa resettling in the United States. Amer J Trop Med Hyg 2011;85(4):612-615.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43545/9241547103_eng.pdf
Preventive chemotherapy
IVM = ivermectin
World Health Assembly targets and deadlines Resolution WHA47.32 (1994) requested Member States “…to prepare national plans…for the control of onchocerciasis through vector control, where applicable, and the regular distribution of ivermectin to populations in need…”. Target dates for OEPA (elimination) and APOC (elimination as a public health problem) are currently 2007 and 2010, respectively.
>https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43545/9241547103_eng.pdf
Recommended intervention strategy and aim Yearly distribution of ivermectin to meso- and hyperendemic communities is the standard option. However, drug distribution may take place more frequently: in some countries, the national plans recommend treatment every 6 months (aiming at controlling morbidity and eventually interrupting transmission). Control activities are organized on a regional basis as outlined in the following paragraphs:
Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP). OCP was launched in 1974 and officially closed in 2002. Its goal was to eliminate onchocerciasis as a public health problem and an obstacle to socioeconomic development from 11 west African countries. Vector control was the main strategy – and the only strategy from 1974 to 1988. From 1988 (when the Mectizan® Donation Program was established) until 2002, vector control was coupled with mass distribution of ivermectin. Vector control is continuing in five countries (Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Togo) of the former OCP, known as Special Intervention Zones. In all the 11 countries, detection of transmission recrudescence and disease control through IVM distribution are now routine functions of national disease surveillance and control services. African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC). APOC’s goal is to eliminate onchocerciasis as a disease of public health importance and an important constraint on socioeconomic development in 19 African countries. Community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) is the main strategy of APOC, coupled with vector control in four selected foci in Equatorial Guinea (1 focus), United Republic of Tanzania (1 focus) and Uganda (2 foci). Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA). The goal of OEPA is elimination of onchocerciasis as a public health problem, defined as elimination of morbidity – and interruption of transmission where feasible – in six endemic countries in the Americas (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela) through mass treatment with ivermectin.
>until 2002, vector control was coupled with mass distribution of ivermectin
>Community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) is the main strategy of APOC
https://web.archive.org/web/20131029051213/https://www.who.int/apoc/cdti/history/en/
How community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) began
The treatment for onchocerciasis is ivermectin (Mectizan®). In 1987 the manufacturers of the drug –Merck & Co., Inc. – pledged to provide an unlimited supply of ivermectin free of charge to all those at risk from onchocerciasis and for as long as necessary. With drug supplies secured, the challenge for onchocerciasis control programmes was to work out a way to deliver the treatment to the people who needed it, and to sustain the delivery for a sufficiently long period to bring about control of the disease.
Community-directed treatment with ivermectin
APOC
There were some basic requirements for the ivermectin distribution system:
it had to be cheap,
it had to work in some of the most difficult, remote, war-torn areas of Africa, many of which were far from urban health centres,
it had to be sustainable – to break transmission of the parasite, ivermectin has to be given once a year for 16–18 years to all eligible populations at high risk.
>https://web.archive.org/web/20131029051213/https://www.who.int/apoc/cdti/history/en/
CDTI timeline
1988: OCP use mobile teams of health workers to distribute ivermectin. There is very little community involvement and costs to the health system are high.
1995: Experts at WHO, the World Bank, and the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) recruit a team of African scientists to find a more sustainable and cost-effective method to deliver the treatment.
1996: Results from a multi-country study show that community-directed treatment is a feasible, effective and sustainable approach.
1997: APOC formally adopts the CDTI strategy, which proves to be a huge success.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040704012556/http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/publications/comdti.htm
==Community Directed Treatment with Ivermectin
Report of a multi-country study==
Onchocerciasis remains a serious public health in large parts of tropical Africa where some 18 million people are affected. The most severe consequence of onchocerciasis is blindness, which may afflict over one third of the adult population of the most affected communities. Other important problems are severe skin disease and maddening itching which cause great suffering to millions of people.
Table of contents and introduction (pdf* 232Kb)
Study design and Methodology (pdf 353Mb)
Study Areas (pdf 396Kb)
Community Directed Treatment Approaches (pdf 1.1Mb)
Adherence to Appropriate Treatment Procedures (pdf 499 Kb)
Treatment coverage (pdf 497Kb)
Factors related to Treatment Coverage (pdf 861Kb)
Reporting (pdf 247Kb)
Sustainability and Replicability - Conclusions and Recommendations
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