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Disease Eradication: Friend or Foe to the Health System? -
Principles of Disease Elimination and Eradication - explains the difference between disease elimination and eradication and describes the criteria to consider before attempting to do either.
Eradication: Lessons From the Past - considers the viability of disease eradication by contrasting the failure of a malaria campaign with the successful smallpox program.
International Task Force for Disease Eradication - program of The Carter Center working to take advantage of opportunities for eradication or better control of certain diseases that have plagued humankind for centuries.
CDC: Candidate Diseases for Elimination or Eradication - offers details on noninfectious conditions, and bacterial, parasitic, and viral diseases.
CDC: Global Immunizations and Vaccinations - directory of links to documents and organizations involved in the control or eradication of illnesses around the world.
Eradication and Elimination of Six Infectious Diseases - testimony by representatives of the CDC, WHO, USAID, and others from a 1998 hearing before the U.S. Committee on International Relations.
Disease Eradication and Health Systems Development - 1999 article assessing the opportunities and threats posed by disease eradication and elimination programs to local health systems.