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Challenges in mass drug administration for treating lymphatic filariasis in Papua, Indonesia

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, January 2010
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Title
Challenges in mass drug administration for treating lymphatic filariasis in Papua, Indonesia
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, January 2010
DOI 10.1186/1756-3305-3-70
Pubmed ID
20701744
Authors

Navneet Bhullar, Jacob Maikere

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis relies on mass drug administration (MDA) of two drugs annually for 4 to 6 years. The goal is to reduce the reservoir of microfilariae in the blood to a level insufficient to maintain transmission by the mosquito vector. In 2008, the international medical aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) performed the first round of a MDA in the high-burden area of Asmat district, in Papua, Indonesia. We report the challenges faced in this MDA on a remote Indonesian island and propose solutions to overcome these hurdles in similar future contexts.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 3 3%
Unknown 105 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 23 21%
Student > Bachelor 14 13%
Student > Master 12 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 8%
Student > Postgraduate 6 6%
Other 19 18%
Unknown 25 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 5%
Environmental Science 5 5%
Other 21 19%
Unknown 28 26%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 22 June 2012.
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#18,308,895
of 22,668,244 outputs
Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#4,191
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#149,974
of 163,528 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#24
of 29 outputs
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