Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards yaws and yaws-like skin disease in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Yaws is endemic in Ghana. The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new global eradication campaign based on total community mass treatment with azithromycin. Achieving high coverage of mass treatment will be fundamental to the success of this new strategy; coverage is dependent, in part, on appropriate community mobilisation. An understanding of community knowledge, attitudes and practices related to yaws in Ghana and other endemic countries will be vital in designing effective community engagement strategies.

Methods

A verbally administered questionnaire was administered to residents in 3 districts in the Eastern region of Ghana where a randomised trial on the treatment of yaws was being conducted. The questionnaire combined both quantitative and qual

SUBMITTER: Marks M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5552343 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature