Preventive chemotherapy coverage against soil-transmitted helminth infection among school age children: Implications from coverage validation survey in Ethiopia, 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections remain the most common neglected tropical diseases among children living mainly in low-resource settings. Preventive chemotherapy (PC) has been implemented as one of the main public health interventions to control and eliminate STH infections. Although data on routine coverage of PC against STH are available at different level of the health system; these data are unreliable as they are subject to errors and manipulation and evidence is lacking on validated treatment coverage. Thus, this study aimed to determine anthelminthic coverage among school age children (SAC) to inform decision made in PC program implementation.

Methods

We conducted a community-based cross-sectional coverage survey in ten districts of Ethiopia; in A

SUBMITTER: Asfaw MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7319348 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature