Is mass drug administration against lymphatic filariasis required in urban settings? The experience in Kano, Nigeria.
The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF), launched in 2000, has the target of eliminating the disease as a public health problem by the year 2020. The strategy adopted is mass drug administration (MDA) to all eligible individuals in endemic communities and the implementation of...
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Main Authors: | Dung D Pam (Author), Dziedzom K de Souza (Author), Susan D'Souza (Author), Millicent Opoku (Author), Safiya Sanda (Author), Ibrahim Nazaradden (Author), Ifeoma N Anagbogu (Author), Chukwu Okoronkwo (Author), Emmanuel Davies (Author), Elisabeth Elhassan (Author), David H Molyneux (Author), Moses J Bockarie (Author), Benjamin G Koudou (Author) |
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2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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