Defining optimal implementation packages for delivering community-wide mass drug administration for soil-transmitted helminths with high coverage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent evidence suggests that community-wide mass drug administration (MDA) may interrupt the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths (STH), a group of intestinal worms that infect 1.5 billion individuals globally. Although current operational guidelines provide best practices for effective MDA delivery, they do not describe which activities are most essential for achieving high coverage or how they work together to produce effective intervention delivery. We aimed to identify the various packages of influential intervention delivery activities that result in high coverage of community-wide MDA for STH in Benin, India, and Malawi.

Methods

We applied coincidence analysis (CNA), a novel cross-case analytical method, to process mapping data as part of the implemen

SUBMITTER: Gwayi-Chore MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9206125 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature