Mass drug administration (MDA) programmes for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) depend on voluntary community drug distributors (CDDs) to deliver drugs, and these volunteer schemes …

Mar 4, 2021 · In this paper, we document more than 2 decades (1997–2019) of the contributions of 146,000 communities and 4.8 million CDDs of medicines for NTDs, unpaid or minimally …

This study explored the perceptions of CDD roles by community members, impact, challenges faced and views on resources needed by CDDs to enable them work effectively on the …

Jun 16, 2016 · Trusted literate, or semi-literate, community drug distributors (CDDs) are the primary implementers in integrated preventive chemotherapy (IPC) programmes for Neglected …

Dec 6, 2017 · Significant public health gains have been made and documented in the process to reduce the transmission and impact of PC-NTDs, specifically those NTDs that respond to …

Jul 26, 2019 · Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have plagued humans for thousands of years. Thanks in large part to the availability of drugs that were created in recent decades, we now …

Act to End Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) West is a five-year (2018–2023), $200 million program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to control or …

Mar 4, 2021 · We propose that, based on the unprecedented progress made in the control of NTDs directly linked to community engagement and contributions of CDDs "foot soldiers," they …

Distributors (CDD), teachers or health workers. Intermediate data aggregation level: This refers to administrative levels, lower than the national level but higher than the drug distribution level, …

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) include several parasitic viral, bacterial, fungal, and non-communicable diseases that cause substantial illness for more than one billion people …