Improved assessment of mass drug administration and health district management performance to eliminate lymphatic filariasis.

ABSTRACT: 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 population living in endemic districts. Suboptimal MDA coverage leads to persistent parasite transmission with consequential infection, disease and disability, and the need for continuing MDA rounds, requiring considerable investment. Routine coverage reports must be verified in each MDA implementation unit (IU) due to incorrect denominators and numerators used to calculate coverage estimates with administrative data. IU are usually the health districts. Coverage is verified so IU teams can evaluate their outreach and take appropriate action to improve performance. Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of

SUBMITTER: Maroto-Camino C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6636779 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature