The public health benefit and burden of mass drug administration programs in Vietnamese schoolchildren: Impact of mebendazole.

• Prif Awduron: Sam Debaveye (Awdur), Claudia Virginia Gonzalez Torres (Awdur), Delphine De Smedt (Awdur), Bert Heirman (Awdur), Shane Kavanagh (Awdur), Jo Dewulf (Awdur)
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BACKGROUND:Mass anthelmintic drug administration is recommended in developing countries to address infection by soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH). We quantified the public health benefit of treatment with mebendazole in eight million Vietnamese children aged 5-14 years from 2006 to 2011. This was...