Factors Influencing Drug Uptake during Mass Drug Administration for Control of Lymphatic Filariasis in Rural and Urban Tanzania

Drug uptake relied more on easily modifiable provider-related factors than on individual perceptions and practices in the target population, and limited investments in appropriate timing, dissemination of accurate timing information to recipients and motivation of drug distributors to visit all households are likely to have considerable potential for increasing drug uptake.

Abstract

Drug uptake relied more on easily modifiable provider-related factors than on individual perceptions and practices in the target population. Limited investments in appropriate timing, dissemination of accurate timing information to recipients and motivation of drug distributors to visit all households (repeatedly when residents are absent) are likely to have considerable potential for increasing drug uptake, in support of successful LF transmission elimination.