Sentences with phrase «mass drug administration»

A major challenge facing mass drug administration (MDA) programmes targeting the control and elimination of lymphatic filariasis or onchocerciasis is the serious adverse - sometimes life threatening - reactions that this treatment can have on people who are also infected with loisasis.

Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented commitment to the control of neglected tropical diseases, with a specific emphasis on the integration of mass drug administration (MDA) programmes.

A controversial strategy known as mass drug administration could be key to wiping out the disease in the Mekong region

Vector borne disease control often relies on universal distribution of interventions, such as long - lasting insecticide treated bednets for malaria and mass drug administration for filariasis.

We concluded that the sources of heterogeneity within a transmission system have different implications for the success of mass drug administration (MDA) in achieving elimination.»

In this case, mass drug administration was a suitable and effective response for a small and geographically confined population over a short seasonal transition period.

Standard control measures were implemented for one year (i.e. Active case detection, intensifies vector control), after which a program of mass drug administration (MDA) was implemented to provide the entire local immigrant population with a curative course of antimalarial drugs.

Despite these interventions 20 more introduced cases were reported in 2012 and, due to fears that the malaria parasite may be re-establishing in the area, a program of mass drug administration of one course of chloroquine and primaquine, which are the first line recommended antimalarials for P. vivax.

Although an observational study of this nature can not assess the extent to which mass drug administration was responsible for eliminating malaria, it certainly indicates that mass drug administration should be considered and can be effective in local settings alongside other malaria control measures.

Use of this technology to exclude patients from ivermectin - based treatment at the point of care in Loa - endemic regions would allow resumption / expansion of mass drug administration programs for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis in Central Africa.

He said: «This is an entirely novel type of intervention which could be added to community - wide campaigns with antimalarial drugs, such as mass drug administration and seasonal malaria chemoprevention, to kill both mosquitoes and parasites.

Desperate to bring down the toll in the northeast, WHO experts have been advocating an antimalaria strategy known as mass drug administration, or MDA.

Areas of mass drug administrations (MDA) of artesunate / amodiaquine malaria chemoprevention (ASAQ - CP) during the Ebola outbreak, Monrovia, Liberia, 2014.

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People working in biomanufacturing need to be prepared for inspections by the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medical Evaluation Agency designed to ensure that mass - produced proteins are of the same quality as those used in clinical trials.

Swartz and his team are negotiating with a government agency (which he says he can not name) in collaboration with General Electric to develop a new version of the tooth dosimeter that would be U.S. Food and Drug Administration — compliant and scalable for mass manufacture.