Mass Drug Administration
Adverse drug reaction following mass drug administration during the program to eliminate lymphatic filariasis in banke district, Nepal
... launched mass drug administration Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis in 36 district in the year 2011 where two drugs named Diethylcarbamazine and albendazole were administered to ...a ...
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Measuring and modelling the effects of systematic non adherence to mass drug administration
... The majority of modelling predictions for the outcome of mass drug administration campaigns assume random coverage (Truscott et al., 2015; Gambhir and Pinsent, 2015; Liu et al., 2015; Blok et al., ...
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A stochastic model for the probability of malaria extinction by mass drug administration
... Background: Mass drug administration (MDA) has been proposed as an intervention to achieve local extinction of malaria. Although its effect on the reproduction number is short lived, extinction may ...
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Coverage and compliance of mass drug administration for elimination of lymphatic filariasis in endemic areas of Bidar district, Karnataka
... Background: Lymphatic filariasis is caused by Wucheria brancrofti. The infection is endemic in more than 80 countries, with more than 1.3 billion people at risk and 120 mi llion already infected globally. Mass ...
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Elimination of lymphatic filariasis: current perspectives on mass drug administration
... of mass drug administration (MDA) towards the elimination of ...the drug distribution, health system and implementation challenges are ...Keywords: mass drug ...
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Vaccination or mass drug administration against schistosomiasis: a hypothetical cost effectiveness modelling comparison
... Control in endemic regions is through mass drug administration (MDA), using the drug praziquantel [2]. Currently, MDA is implemented predominantly through school-based initiatives targeting ...
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Cessation of Mass Drug Administration for Lymphatic Filariasis in Zanzibar in 2006: Was Transmission Interrupted?
... Cessation of Mass Drug Administration for Lymphatic Filariasis in Zanzibar in 2006: Was Transmission Interrupted?. Maria P.[r] ...
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Impact of an ivermectin mass drug administration on scabies prevalence in a remote Australian Aboriginal community
... Mass drug administration (MDA) programs using topical acaricides to decrease scabies prevalence have had varying degrees of success in Australia.[5,8,13] Due to high endemicity, high transmissibility ...
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The COUNTDOWN Study Protocol for Expansion of Mass Drug Administration Strategies against Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis in Ghana
... emphasises mass administration of deworming drugs in school-based ...community mass drug administration (to preschool children, school non-attending children, and adults, including ...
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Mass drug administration can be a valuable addition to the malaria elimination toolbox
... elimination. Mass drug administration (MDA), defined as the provision of a therapeutic dose of an effective anti-malarial drug to the entire target population, irrespective of infection status ...
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Schistosoma mansoni infection after three years of mass drug administration in Sierra Leone
... [15-17]. Mass drug administration (MDA) with PZQ was implemented in seven moderately-highly endemic districts: Kailahun, Kono, Koinadugu, Kenema, Bo, and the north- eastern chiefdoms of Tonkolili and ...
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Longitudinal analysis of antibody responses to trachoma antigens before and after mass drug administration
... Studies were conducted in the Kongwa District of Tanzania as part of ongoing clinical trials to evaluate the impact of alternative models of community-wide treat- ment with azithromycin and to compare nucleic acid ...
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Challenges in mass drug administration for treating lymphatic filariasis in Papua, Indonesia
... Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis relies on mass drug administration (MDA) of two drugs annually for 4 to 6 years. The goal is to reduce ...
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Community drug distributors for mass drug administration in neglected tropical disease programmes: systematic review and analysis of policy documents
... Background Mass drug administration (MDA) programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) depend on voluntary community drug distrib- utors (CDDs) to deliver drugs, and these volunteer ...
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A qualitative study to assess community barriers to malaria mass drug administration trials in the Gambia
... Background: Mass drug administration (MDA) is a strategy widely used in the control of human parasitic diseases but has been rarely attempted with malaria, the most common and dangerous parasitic ...
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Maintaining effective mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis through in process monitoring in Sierra Leone
... conducted mass drug administration (MDA) for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) implemented by unpaid community health volunteers ...
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Wuchereria bancrofti transmission pattern in southern Mali prior to and following the institution of mass drug administration
... In Mali, although the public health importance of LF was noted as early as the 1970′s [2], the prevalence and distribution were not studied again until 2002, when the National Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program ...
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The role of gender relations in uptake of mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis in Alor District, Indonesia
... These analyses have shown the importance of collecting data on the social context, including gender dynamics, in which health care interventions are implemented. Compre- hensive data on values and attitudes are essential ...
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Improved Assessment of Mass Drug Administration and Health District Management Performance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis
... Lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination as a public health problem requires the interruption of transmission by administration of preventive mass drug administration (MDA) to the eligible ...
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Is mass drug administration against lymphatic filariasis required in urban settings? The experience in Kano, Nigeria
... Mass drug administration (MDA) for the control of elephantiasis in the state of Kano in Nigeria, started in the year 2010. It was estimated that by 2015, the MDA programme will be extended to 11 ...
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