Sentence examples for mass chemotherapy programmes from inspiring English sources

These are now used by many other preventative mass chemotherapy programmes.

Although mass chemotherapy programmes are specifically directed at reducing human morbidity, they may have implications for other definitive hosts of schistosomes.

The potential impacts of mass chemotherapy programmes on parasites and intermediate hosts are also important in relation to their overall effect on infection intensity and virulence of schistosomes within their human host.

Mass chemotherapy control programmes may, however, also be predicted to impact on human hosts directly.

Such theories, although somewhat speculative at this stage, highlight the importance of monitoring and evaluating the impact of mass chemotherapy control programmes on such inter-specific interactions.

Nevertheless, it may well be of value to monitor the effectiveness of such treatment-acquired immunity in relation to mass chemotherapy control programmes over space and time.

Mass chemotherapy control programmes may be predicted to prevent the development of naturally acquired resistance to infection, and may therefore have detrimental effects, at least in terms of the proportion of humans infected, if control ceases and individuals continued to be highly infected at older ages without having developed any acquired immunity during childhood.

Large scale population genetic studies as part of the monitoring and evaluation of mass human chemotherapy programmes should investigate a range of factors.

Mass chemotherapy schistosomiasis control programmes do not only involve the administration of chemotherapy, but also the provision of health education.

Our current ignorance therefore demands that careful monitoring for the potential evolution of such resistance is part of all mass chemotherapy based control programmes.

Though the incidence of paragonimiasis has been reduced substantially with education programmes and mass chemotherapy, it is the control of the vector population and reduction in human arthropod contacts that are most practicable and sustainable.