Community attitudes toward mass drug administration for control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases after the 2014 outbreak of ebola virus disease in Lofa County, Liberia

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 497-503

  Bogus, Joshua ^a   Gankpala, Lincoln ^b   Fischer, Kerstin ^a   Krentel, Alison ^c   Weil, Gary J ^a   Fischer, Peter U ^a   Kollie, Karsor ^d   Bolay, Fatorma K ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research   (Liberia)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Liberia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FEAR; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KNOWLEDGE; LIBERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MASS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEGLECTED DISEASE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGN; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; TROPICAL DISEASE; TRUST; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE ERADICATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HISTORY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PARASITIC DISEASES; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; IVERMECTIN; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ADULT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; LIBERIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PARASITIC DISEASES; PRAZIQUANTEL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84960945210     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0591     Document Type: Article

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