Coverage And Compliance Of Mass Drug Administration For Elimination Of Lymphatic Filariasis In Endemic Areas Of Bagalkot District, Karnataka.

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Abstracts BackroundMass d-rug administration (MDA), for control of filariasis was launched by government of India in 1996. Under this programme, all the beneficiaries in the age group of 2 to 60 years (excluding pregnant mothers, people above 60 and having other illness), will be administered. Filariasis being endemic in the District Methodology: The MDA was carried out in the district in the month of May 2014. This study was conducted To assess the coverage and compliance of MDA in Bagalkot district in the year 2014. After visiting the selected cluster ( 3 rural and 1 urban) the information was collected from the 30 houses in each cluster randomly.Results: Out of 720 population surveyed 353 (49.02%) were males and 367 (50.98%) were female ,3.1% of geriatric population were given the drugs . 406 (56.4%) had taken full course, 58 (8.1%) had partially taken the drugs while 256 (35.5%) had either not received the drugs or had not taken the tablet. Though the coverage was high, the compliance was only 56.4 %, which is much below the target of 85%. Main reason for noncompliance was lack of adequate information .Conclusion:Effective drug delivery strategies such as proper area demarcation, repeat house visits have to be done to improve coverage. Training of drug distributors to improve interpersonal communication & effective IEC activities are to be emphasized to improve compliance & achieve elimination of filariasis.