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Alternate Methods of NTD Service Delivery to Comply with COVID-19 Restrictions
- An alternate approach to the delivery of NTD treatment includes embracing a previous approach used for the control of onchocerciasis, Community Directed Approach with Ivermectin (CDAI), in which the community distributed treatment over a prolonged period of time, as this would better comply with COVID restrictions; however, cost and community acceptance would need to be evaluated first.
- Integrating NTD’s into primary healthcare is another option worth considering.
- Combining treatment delivery with food distribution efforts could also be a viable treatment option as the pandemic could lead to economic crisis for those populations affected most by NTD’s. Another benefit for this method includes taking the medicine with the food being distributed could ease the side effects of the drug being distributed.
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Updated 2021-02-07
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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
Biomedical Sciences