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Filariasis

National Filariasis Control Programme In India and New Strategies for Its Control

VI. Mass Drug Administration with DEC Single Dose Annually

The International Task Force for Disease eradication had identified lymphatic filariasis as one of the only seven infectious diseases considered eradicable or potentially eradicable.

The single dose mass therapy has been found to possess the following advantages:

1. It appears to be as effective as 12 day therapy as a public health measure.

2. It has lesser side effects thus enhancing public compliance.

3. It involves decreased delivery costs.

4. It does not require complex management infrastructure.

5. It can be integrated into the existing primary health care system for delivery compliance.

6. Single dose mass administration annually in combination with other techniques already eliminated lymphatic filariasis from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Solomon Islands and markedly reduced  the transmission in China.

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