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Maintaining effective mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis through in-process monitoring in Sierra Leone

BACKGROUND: Since 2007 Sierra Leone has conducted mass drug administration (MDA) for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) implemented by unpaid community health volunteers (CHVs). Other health campaigns such as Mother and Child Health Weeks (MCHW) pay for services to be implemented at commun...

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Autores principales:	Hodges, Mary H, Sonnie, Mustapha, Turay, Hamid, Conteh, Abdulai, MacCarthy, Florence, Sesay, Santigie
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2012
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3503583/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23062561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-232

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