The COUNTDOWN Study Protocol for Expansion of Mass Drug Administration Strategies against Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in Ghana

News article 1 May 2018
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Using a multidisciplinary approach, this study is generating evidence for improved availability, acceptability, affordability, and accessibility to deworming drugs against schistosomiasis and STH to individuals and communities in Ghana. This is likely to have considerable research, programmatic, and political value to contribute evidence for national programme policy development within Ghana, and, more broadly, World Health Organization policy development.

It was published in the Special Issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease titled 'Population Ecology, Epidemiology, and Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases'.