Community-based education strengthens campaign for elimination of lymphatic filariasis
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 10:35
in Health & Medicine
Community-based lymphatic filariasis education in Orissa State, India, increased treatment compliance from around 50% to up to 90%, according to a study published June 29 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. In their study, researchers from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, in partnership with the Church's Auxiliary for Social Action, an India-based non-governmental organisation, and IMA World Health, a US-based non-governmental organisation, identified barriers to compliance with India's MDA program for LF, and suggest that timely educational and lymphoedema management programs can reverse this trend...