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Monitoring the impact of a national school based deworming programme on soil-transmitted helminths in Kenya: the first three years, 2012 – 2014

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, July 2016
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Title
Monitoring the impact of a national school based deworming programme on soil-transmitted helminths in Kenya: the first three years, 2012 – 2014
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13071-016-1679-y
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Collins Okoyo, Birgit Nikolay, Jimmy Kihara, Elses Simiyu, Joshua V. Garn, Mathew C. Freeman, Mariam T. Mwanje, Dunstan A. Mukoko, Simon J. Brooker, Rachel L. Pullan, Sammy M. Njenga, Charles S. Mwandawiro

Abstract

In 2012, the Kenyan Ministries of Health and of Education began a programme to deworm all school-age children living in areas at high risk of soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosome infections. The impact of this school-based mass drug administration (MDA) programme in Kenya is monitored by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) as part of a five-year (2012-2017) study. This article focuses on the impact of MDA on STH infections and presents the overall achieved reductions from baseline to mid-term, as well as yearly patterns of reductions and subsequent re-infections per school community. The study involved a series of pre- and post-intervention, repeat cross-sectional surveys in a representative, stratified, two-stage sample of schools across Kenya. The programme contained two tiers of monitoring; a national baseline and mid-term survey including 200 schools, and surveys conducted among 60 schools pre- and post-intervention. Stool samples were collected from randomly selected school children and tested for helminth infections using Kato-Katz technique. The prevalence and mean intensity of each helminth species were calculated at the school and county levels and 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) were obtained by binomial and negative binomial regression, respectively, taking into account clustering by schools. The overall prevalence of STH infection at baseline was 32.3 % (hookworms: 15.4 %; Ascaris lumbricoides: 18.1 %; and Trichuris trichiura: 6.7 %). After two rounds of MDA, the overall prevalence of STH had reduced to 16.4 % (hookworms: 2.3 %; A. lumbricoides: 11.9 %; and T. trichiura: 4.5 %). The relative reductions of moderate to heavy intensity of infections were 33.7 % (STH combined), 77.3 % (hookworms) and 33.9 % (A. lumbricoides). For T. trichiura, however, moderate to heavy intensity of infections increased non-significantly by 18.0 % from baseline to mid-term survey. The school-based deworming programme has substantially reduced STH infections, but because of ongoing transmission additional strategies may be required to achieve a sustained interruption of transmission.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 139 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 36 26%
Researcher 21 15%
Student > Bachelor 13 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 39 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 10%
Social Sciences 11 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 7%
Other 25 18%
Unknown 43 31%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 December 2017.
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#7,410,750
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Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#1,776
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#125,160
of 367,312 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#50
of 153 outputs
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