Sentence examples for mass treatment programmes from inspiring English sources
COUNTDOWN is committed to trials and development of mass treatment programmes related to NTDs.
This conclusion should not surprise us – it is to be expected in all mass treatment programmes for all pathogens.
Several informants also commented on the fact that Congolese people were known to come to Dei during mass treatment programmes to take the drugs back to their country.
Shortly after the first mass treatment programmes began in central and southern Cameroon, serious neurological adverse events were reported in patients with very high Loa loa microfilaraemia [ 43].
Second, the long history of disease control in this part of Uganda, notably the mass treatment programmes that were instigated to contain and control sleeping sickness, dating back to the Protectorate period.
To a large extent, other mass treatment programmes such as immunization campaigns have been affected by this history of successful disease control and have elicited a positive response from the population.
In the Cambodia study, periodic surveys were carried out every six months for two years after the mass treatment programme.
The mass treatment programme in Hoima and Masindi began in earnest in 1991, with support from Sightsavers and its partner, the Uganda Foundation for the Blind.
Yaws was the first disease to be targeted for eradication by the World Health Organization (WHO), and mass screening and treatment programmes led by WHO reduced the global prevalence by >95% between 1950 and 1964, but it has re-emerged as an important public health problem in West Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific in recent years.
Thirdly, inclusion of mass treatment with azithromycin in programmes to eliminate trachoma needs careful analysis: although the intervention was cost effective in sub-Saharan Africa according to commonly used benchmarks, it was not in South East Asia.
This has raised the concern that the mass treatment of helminth infections through anthelmintic treatment programmes may increase the prevalence of allergic disease in populations where these infections are endemic.
