Comparison of World Health Organization and Demographic and Health Surveys data to estimate sub-national deworming coverage in pre-school aged children.

• Main Authors: Nathan C Lo (Author), Ribhav Gupta (Author), David G Addiss (Author), Eran Bendavid (Author), Sam Heft-Neal (Author), Alexei Mikhailov (Author), Antonio Montresor (Author), Pamela Sabina Mbabazi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>The key metric for monitoring the progress of deworming programs in controlling soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) is national drug coverage reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). There is increased interest in utilizing geographically-disaggregated data to...