Table 1.
Country | Year | Drug* | Number of people surveyed at baseline | Individuals with STH infections of moderate high intensity baseline – last follow-up |
Follow up (months) | Age group | PC frequency | Ref | ||
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A. lumbricoides | T trichiura | hookworms | ||||||||
Myanmar | 2004 | Alb | 1 000 | 18% - 7% | 84 | SAC | 2/year | 10, 11 | ||
2013 | ||||||||||
Bangladesh | 2005 | Alb | 792 | 29.4% - 1.8% | 12.4% - 1.1% | NA | 60 | SAC | 2/year | 12, 13 |
2016 | ||||||||||
Lao | 2008 | Meb | 2 885 | 37.8% - 9.2% | 10.3% - 3.8% | NA | 24 | SAC | 2/year | 14 |
Tanzania | 2009 | Alb | 1 194 | 23% - 1.4% | 24% - 0.3% | 26% - 0 | 132 | SAC | 1/year | 15 |
Viet Nam | 2013 | Alb | 389 | 8% - 0 | 2% - 0 | 14% - 0 | 12, 30, 54 | WCBA | 2/year | 16 |
Cuba | 2014 | Meb | 268 | 6.7% - 1% | NA | NA | 36 | SAC | 2/year | 17 |
Peru | 2016 | Meb | 816 | 40% - 2.9% | 25.2% - 6.7% | NA | 12, 24 | SAC | 3/year | 18 |
Kenya | 2016 | Alb | 21 432 | 8.2% - 5.4% | 8.2% - 0.3% | NA | 36 | SAC | 1/year | 19 |
Alb= albendazole; Meb= mebendazole; PC= preventive chemotherapy SAC = School aged children, WCBA=Women of Child bearing age, NA (prevalence of MHI 0-3%)