Ensuring the Efficacy of Mass Drug Administration Drugs for Soil-Transmitted Helminths

The overall objective of the investment is to establish a surveillance system that globally monitors the eficacy of drugs and spread of AR in STH programs, and hence prevailing the success of MDA programs to eliminate STH as a public problem by 2020. The specific objectives are
(i) the validation of diagnostic tools to monitor effectiveness of drugs and spread of AR
(ii) the establishment of a surveillance system to monitor the global patterns of effectiveness of drugs and AR in STH programs
(iii) the development of supporting tools for planning, analysis and following-up of the effectiveness of drugs and spread of AR

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