Background Adolescents face significant barriers to contraception access and utilization that
result in adverse health effects of early pregnancy and childbirth. Unsafe abortions continue …

Background There is now rapidly growing global awareness of the potential of large-scale
community health worker (CHW) programmes not only for improving population health but …

Background Community-based public health campaigns, such as those used in mass
deworming, vitamin A supplementation and child immunization programs, provide key …

Background School-based deworming programmes can reduce morbidity attributable to soil-
transmitted helminths in children but do not interrupt transmission in the wider community …

The present paper aims to establish different treatments for neglected tropical disease by a
survey on drug conjugations and possible fixed-dose combinations (FDC) used to obtain …

Monitoring the safety of medicines used in public health programs (PHPs), including the
neglected tropical diseases (NTD) program, is a WHO recommendation, and requires a well …

In Haiti, 22 communes still require mass drug administration (MDA) to eliminate lymphatic
filariasis (LF) as a public health problem. Several clinical trials have shown that a single oral …

Background The success of the global strategy to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) through
mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns is dependent on meeting high coverage levels …

Background Malaria remains a major public health problem, especially in sub-Sahara
African countries. The Malaria Control Program of Ghana has implemented Seasonal …

Background Many countries will not reach elimination targets for lymphatic filariasis in 2020
using the two-drug treatment regimen (diethylcarbamazine citrate [DEC] and albendazole …