preventive chemotherapy
Bayesian risk profiling of soil transmitted helminth infections and estimates of preventive chemotherapy for school aged children in Côte d'Ivoire
... for preventive chemotherapy on a yearly basis, we defined the soil-transmitted helminth risk level of each health district according to the school-aged chil- dren population-adjusted ...of preventive ...
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Review of the 2017 WHO Guideline: Preventive chemotherapy to control soil transmitted helminth infections in at risk population groups An opportunity lost in translation
... On 29 September 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a new Guideline on the implementation of preventive chemotherapy (PC) programmes for the control of soil-trans- mitted helminthiasis (STH) ...
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Sustained preventive chemotherapy for soil-transmitted helminthiases leads to reduction in prevalence and anthelminthic tablets required
... recommends preventive chemotherapy (PC) with albendazole or meben- dazole to control STH-related morbidity alongside targeted health education and improved water and sanitation ...
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Focusing nucleic acid-based molecular diagnostics and xenomonitoring approaches for human helminthiases amenable to preventive chemotherapy
... The current mainstay for control of the four major helminth diseases in humans (lymphatic fi lariasis, onchocerciasis, soil- transmitted helminthiases and schistosomiasis) is with preventive chemotherapy by ...
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Optimising cluster survey design for planning schistosomiasis preventive chemotherapy
... Many countries are currently scaling up efforts to control schistosomiasis, a helminthic disease for which preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel is the main control tool. In order to apply WHO ...
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Feasibility of controlling hookworm infection through preventive chemotherapy: a simulation study using the individual based WORMSIM modelling framework
... Globally, over 1 billion people in developing countries are infected with soil-transmitted helminths (STH), of which about 440 million people are infected with at least one type of hookworm (Necator americanus or ...
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The Socioeconomic Benefit to Individuals of Achieving the 2020 Targets for Five Preventive Chemotherapy Neglected Tropical Diseases
... NTD control or elimination targets for the year 2020 were set out in the WHO Roadmap of 2011 and endorsed by partners in the London Declaration of 2012 [15–17]. Among these 10 NTDs, the most prevalent globally are: ...
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Effect of an integrated intervention package of preventive chemotherapy, community led total sanitation and health education on the prevalence of helminth and intestinal protozoa infections in Côte d’Ivoire
... More than half of the human population is at risk of soil-transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis, over 1 billion people are infected and the global burden of these neglected tropical diseases in 2015 was 6.3 ...
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Adult population as potential reservoir of NTD infections in rural villages of Kwale district, Coastal Kenya: implications for preventive chemotherapy interventions policy
... offer preventive chemotherapy interventions to adults in high endemic areas in an effort complement school-based deworming and to accelerate reduction of transmission of hel- minthic infections in such ...
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Optimising cluster survey design for planning schistosomiasis preventive chemotherapy
... Many countries are currently scaling up efforts to control schistosomiasis, a helminthic disease for which preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel is the main control tool. In order to apply WHO ...
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Preventive chemotherapy as a strategy for elimination of neglected tropical parasitic diseases: endgame challenges.
... of preventive chemotherapy for some NTDs, and discuss the problems faced by programmes as they consider the ‘endgame’, such as difficulties of access to populations in post-conflict set- tings, limited ...
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Baseline Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis in the Northern and Eastern Health Regions of Gabon, Central Africa: Recommendations for Preventive Chemotherapy
... Percentage of infected schoolchildren (prevalence) [95% confidence intervals], at overall level, at regional level, according to sex, school area and school.. 236.[r] ...
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Soil-transmitted helminth infection in school age children in Sierra Leone after a decade of preventive chemotherapy interventions
... High coverage in mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis in the rural and non-rural Western area, Sierra Leone. Statistics Sierra Leone[r] ...
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Preventive chemotherapy reverses covert, lymphatic associated tissue change in young people with lymphatic filariasis in Myanmar
... of preventive interven- tions before any overt symptoms appear ...initiate preventive interventions, but in contrast to guidelines for BCRL, GPELF recommenda- tions do not attempt to identify or intervene ...
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Parasitological impact of 2-year preventive chemotherapy on schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Uganda
... mass chemotherapy with PZQ and albendazole (ALB) had been ...mass chemotherapy in this control program upon the preva- lence and intensities of these parasitic infections in differ- ent epidemiological ...
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Preventive chemotherapy reverses covert, lymphatic associated tissue change in young people with lymphatic filariasis in Myanmar
... of preventive interven- tions before any overt symptoms appear ...initiate preventive interventions, but in contrast to guidelines for BCRL, GPELF recommenda- tions do not attempt to identify or intervene ...
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Evaluating the variation in the projected benefit of community wide mass treatment for schistosomiasis: Implications for future economic evaluations
... Impact on transmission and projected rounds to elimination The impact of school-based treatment on the overall level of transmission varied in the different scenarios. However, even when assuming a relatively low pre- ...
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Building a global schistosomiasis alliance: an opportunity to join forces to fight inequality and rural poverty
... A central problem for the achievement of the above resolution, however, is the fact that, until now, the schisto- somiasis community has been built mainly around separ- ate research-driven activities. These include, but ...
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Tailoring mass drug administration to context: implementation research is critical in achieving equitable progress in the control and elimination of helminth neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
... to preventive chemotherapy through mass drug administration, we explore the important role of context, programme partnerships and community in achieving equitable and effective NTD ...
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A mixed methods approach to evaluating community drug distributor performance in the control of neglected tropical diseases
... PDF 390 kb Abbreviations ALB, albendazole; CDD, community drug distributor; CDTI, community directed treatment with ivermectin; IPC, integrated preventive chemotherapy; IVM, ivermectin; [r] ...
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