Post-intervention epidemiology of STH in Bangladesh: Data to sustain the gains.

• Main Authors: Sanjaya Dhakal (Author), Mohammad Jahirul Karim (Author), Abdullah Al Kawsar (Author), Jasmine Irish (Author), Mujibur Rahman (Author), Cara Tupps (Author), Ashraful Kabir (Author), Rubina Imtiaz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In 2008, Bangladesh initiated Preventive Chemotherapy (PCT) for school-age children (SAC) through bi-annual school-based mass drug administration (MDA) to control Soil-Transmitted Helminth (STH) infections. In 2016, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's Program on Lymphatic Filariasis Eli...