Contextual determinants of mass drug administration performance: Modelling fourteen years of lymphatic filariasis treatments in West Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective mass drug administration (MDA) is the cornerstone in the elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) and a critical component in combatting all neglected tropical diseases for which preventative chemotherapy is recommended (PC-NTDs). Despite its importance, MDA coverage, however defined, is rarely investigated systematically across time and geography. Most commonly, investigations into coverage react to unsatisfactory outcomes and tend to focus on a single year and health district. Such investigations omit more macro-level influences including sociological, environmental, and programmatic factors. The USAID NTD database contains measures of performance from thousands of district-level LF MDA campaigns across 14 years and 10 West African countries. Specifically, pe

SUBMITTER: Fuller BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9994721 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature