19th Regional Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program Managers Meeting. 18th Regional Program Review Group Meeting, 25–26 August 2020

Lymphatic filariasis is on track for elimination in the Region of the Americas, where four countries are intensively implementing the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF), launched in 2000 by the World Health Organization. Globally, the number of people estimated to be infected has decreased from 198.7 million in 2000 to 51.4 million in 2018. Progress and challenges in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Guyana and Haiti were the focus of a regional meeting in August 2020 organized by the Pan American Health Organization. This report presents new approaches, lessons learned, and key tools to achieve elimination, such as microplanning for mass drug administration, acceptability assessment surveys, social mobilization, and strengthening morbidity management.