Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards yaws and yaws-like skin disease in Ghana.

• Main Authors: Michael Marks (Author), Cynthia Kwakye-Maclean (Author), Rachel Doherty (Author), Paul Adwere (Author), Abdul Aziz Abdulai (Author), Fredrick Duah (Author), Sally-Ann Ohene (Author), Oriol Mitja (Author), Blanche Oguti (Author), Anthony W Solomon (Author), David C W Mabey (Author), Yaw Adu-Sarkodie (Author), Kingsley Asiedu (Author), Mercy M Ackumey (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Yaws is endemic in Ghana. The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new global eradication campaign based on total community mass treatment with azithromycin. Achieving high coverage of mass treatment will be fundamental to the success of this new strategy; coverage is dependent, in part, o...