Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth control in Niger: cost effectiveness of school based and community distributed mass drug administration [corrected].

• Main Authors: Jacqueline Leslie (Author), Amadou Garba (Author), Elisa Bosque Oliva (Author), Arouna Barkire (Author), Amadou Aboubacar Tinni (Author), Ali Djibo (Author), Idrissa Mounkaila (Author), Alan Fenwick (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: In 2004 Niger established a large scale schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths control programme targeting children aged 5-14 years and adults. In two years 4.3 million treatments were delivered in 40 districts using school based and community distribution. METHOD AND FINDINGS: F...