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A combined school- and community-based campaign targeting all school-age children of Burkina Faso against schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis: Performance, financial costs and implications for sustainability
- Source :
- Acta Tropica. 99:234-242
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2006.
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Abstract
- A combined school- and community-based campaign targeting the entire school-age population of Burkina Faso with drugs against schistosomiasis (praziquantel) and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (albendazole) was implemented in 2004-2005. In total, 3,322,564 children from 5 to 15 years of age were treated, equivalent to a 90.8% coverage of the total school-age population of the country. The total costs of the campaign were estimated to be US 1,067,284 dollars, of which 69.4% was spent on the drugs. Delivery costs per child treated were US 0.098 dollar, in the same range as school-based only interventions implemented in other countries; total costs per child treated (including drugs) were US 0.32 dollar. We conclude that a combined school- and community-based strategy is effective in attaining a high coverage among school-age children in countries where school enrolment is low and where primary schools cannot serve as the exclusive drug distribution points. The challenge for Burkina Faso will now be to ensure the sustainability of these disease control activities.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Total cost
Veterinary (miscellaneous)
education
Population
Helminthiasis
Psychological intervention
Schistosomiasis
Albendazole
Drug Costs
Praziquantel
Schistosomiasis haematobia
Environmental protection
Environmental health
Burkina Faso
parasitic diseases
medicine
Animals
Humans
Child
Anthelmintics
education.field_of_study
Schools
business.industry
Public health
Soil-transmitted helminthiasis
Health Care Costs
Schistosoma mansoni
medicine.disease
Schistosomiasis mansoni
Infectious Diseases
Child, Preschool
Insect Science
Sustainability
Schistosoma haematobium
Female
Parasitology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0001706X
- Volume :
- 99
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acta Tropica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3a62a799e51138af22a7f816d7ca531c