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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Mar 18;111(1):12–17. doi: 10.1093/trstmh/trx011

Table 1.

Country programmes considered for the calculation of the reduction of the proportion of STH infection of moderate and heavy intensity after preventive chemotherapy

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
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%)