A study on coverage, compliance and awareness about mass drug administration for elimination of lymphatic filariasis in a district of West Bengal, India.

Abstract

Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) is one of the oldest and mostdebilitating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). An esti-mated 120 million people in 81 countries are infected cur-rently, and an estimated 1.34 billion live in areas wherefilariasis is endemic and are at risk of infection. Approxi-mately 40 million people suffer from the stigmatizing anddisabling clinical manifestations of the disease, including15 million who have lymphoedema (elephantiasis) and 25million men who have urogenital swelling, principally scro-tal hydrocele