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Factors influencing community acceptability of mass drug administration for the elimination of onchocerciasis in the Asante Akim South Municipal, Ghana

INTRODUCTION: Onchocerciasis is one of the eleven neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) recently targeted by the World Health Organization (WHO) for elimination. Mass drug administration (MDA) of ivermectin has become the main intervention for reducing the burden of onchocerciasis and controlling its t...

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Autores principales:	Kumah, Emmanuel, Owusu, Patrick, Otchere, Godfred, Ankomah, Samuel E., Fusheini, Adam, Kokuro, Collins, Mensah-Acheampong, Frederick, Atta, Joseph Amankwah, Agyei, Samuel Kofi
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2023
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10096254/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37000840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011251

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