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Mass Drug Administration and Integrated Control for the World's High‐Prevalence Neglected Tropical Diseases
Author(s) -
Hotez PJ
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1038/clpt.2009.16
Subject(s) - trachoma , neglected tropical diseases , mass drug administration , medicine , public health , tropical disease , environmental health , drug , drug administration , tropical medicine , intensive care medicine , pharmacology , disease , population , pathology
This year, through mass drug administration, hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people will receive a single annual dose of one or more drugs to treat their parasitic worm infections or trachoma, conditions also known as the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Such essential medicines are increasingly being delivered as a package of drugs to target multiple NTDs simultaneously. This integrated approach to NTD control is now recognized as an important and vital global public health solution.