Coverage and Awareness of and Compliance with Mass Drug Administration for Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Burdwan District, West Bengal, India.
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2013-06
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India adopted WHO’s strategy of repeated rounds of mass drug administration (MDA) with diethylcarbamazine
to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. The present study attempted to assess the coverage and awareness
of and compliance with MDA for elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Burdwan district of India, following
MDA round in July 2010. A cross-sectional study was conducted among the four randomly-selected clusters
in the district of Burdwan, West Bengal, India, covering 603 individuals from 154 households, using a
predesigned pretested schedule. The drug distribution coverage, compliance, and effective coverage were
48.76 %, 70.07%, and 34.16% respectively. Only 41.4% of the study population was aware of the MDA
activity. This evaluation study noted that MDA is restricted to tablet distribution only. There is an urgent
need to improve compliance with drug intake through strengthening of the awareness programme involving
both government health workers and community volunteers.
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Compliance, Coverage, Lymphatic filariasis, Mass drug administration, India
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Roy Rabindra Nath, Sarkar Aditya Prasad, Misra Raghunath, Chakroborty Amitava, Mondal Tusar Kanti, Bag Kanad. Coverage and Awareness of and Compliance with Mass Drug Administration for Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Burdwan District, West Bengal, India. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 2013 Jun; 31(2): 171-177.