Candler Director Master of public administration programme University of North Florida Jacksonville, FloridaSIR – Tupac Shakur could teach us a thing or two about the need for a shared experience.
He spoke of cancelling an Obama administration programme that gives work permits to about 800,000 young immigrants who came to the US as children – a stance likely to slam shut any chance of Latino outreach.
He also says he has seen no evidence of side-effects, though one hospital in Grande Comore said that the number of patients it treated doubled in the week after the drug-administration programme began, with people reporting nausea, fever, stomach and back pain, headaches and chills.
The school's master of business administration programme expects the best results in years in placing graduating students in full-time jobs.
Despite patients' indifferent attitudes towards self-administration in this study, it has been demonstrated that following participation in a self-administration programme, the vast majority of patients report a preference for this method over usual nurse administration of medicines [ 30].
My group came up with a drug that was amazingly effective in mass administration programmes for schistosomiasis.
In a Wellcome Trust blog, Malcolm Regnier summarises the progress of the last year: Oman became the first country to go from endemic trachoma to elimination and every request for drugs needed to conduct mass drug administration programmes was met.
The current global initiative to eliminate lymphatic filariasis represents one of the largest mass drug administration programmes ever conceived for the control of a parasitic disease.
The advent of mass drug administration programmes for the control of schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases in humans increases the urgency to better understand and better monitor drug resistance, and to broaden the currently very narrow range of available anthelmintics.
Data on skin disease before, during or after the implementation of mass drug administration programmes is not routinely reported, so this represents a real gap in our knowledge.
It has been widely and successfully used in mass drug administration programmes for the control and elimination of trachoma.
