Some operational issues of Mass Drug Administration in urban areas: need to develop urban specific strategy

The recommended strategy for elimination of Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is single-dose, once-yearly mass treatment with anti-filarial drugs and the program is in operation on a national level in India.¹ Envirornmental control being a long term measure, the most practical and feasible method of controlling LF is to rapidly reduce the microfilaria load in the community by annual mass drug administration (MDA) of a single dose of antifilarial drugs, i.e. of diethylcarbamazine (DEC) or ivermectin with or without albendazole; 5–10 rounds of treatment with 75%–80% compliance could possibly eliminate the disease by reducing transmission to very low levels. Read more. . .