In 2005, the governments of Nepal, India and Bangladesh and the WHO committed to eliminate VL which requires to decrease VL incidence below 10 per 100,000 population by 2015 and Post Kala-Azar Dermal Leincidenceis (PKDL) incidence to 0 by 2018 [ 9].
A 6-year-period retrospective analysis of 729 consecutive PET-CT scans of H&N cancer patients was performed in order to record the incidence of below-diaphragm metastases and below-diaphragm synchronous primary malignancies.
This quality improvement project aimed to reduce the incidence of perioperative hypothermia to below 10% of cases in patients with major burn (Total Body Surface Area [TBSA] >15%), within a one year period.
Since 1991 this vaccine has been included in the NIP for children of 3 months of life (2 doses, 2 months apart), decreasing the nation-wide incidence of meningococcal meningitis to below 1 per 100 000 population.
Vascular surgical activity has reduced the incidence of below-knee amputations among individuals with diabetes aged <66 years (21).
According to our definition, the AHC epidemics for each city began from the date of the first reported cluster and ended on the date that rates of new case incidence dropped to 0.14% or below.
Reassuringly, however, the proportion of women experiencing any type of preterm contractions did not differ between the acupuncture and control groups (15.4% vs 15.8%, p>0.05) and fell below the anticipated incidence (up to 20%).
The new initiative's goals were to transform Sierra Leone into a middle-income country by 2035 and to reduce the incidence of poverty from 50% to below 20%.
According to an ideal model, screening should start and then stop: a peak of incidence due to screen detection will be followed by a drop, possibly below the expected underlying incidence in absence of screening (adjusted by pre-screening trend).
In this scenario the reduction in EIR is initially insufficient and results in an increase in clinical disease, but after a longer period of time (>40 years) the EIR has declined sufficiently to reduce clinical disease incidence below the levels seen prior to introduction of ITNs.
