Local stakeholders’ perceptions of community sensitization for school-based deworming programme in Kenya
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Local stakeholders’ perceptions of community sensitization for school-based deworming programme in Kenya
BACKGROUND In Kenya, the National School-Based Deworming Programme (NSBDP) for soil-transmitted helminthes and schistosomiasis in prioritized areas has been going on since the year 2012. By the year 2013 over 6 million School Age Children (SAC) had been treated. A community sensitization supplement containing key messages and answers to frequently asked questions was developed as a guiding tool...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2055-0936
DOI: 10.1186/s40794-017-0058-9