Community views on mass drug administration for filariasis: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Mass drug administration means giving every person living in a village or region a drug, irrespective of whether they have the disease or not. It’s an approach used in some disease control programmes in Africa, Asia, and South America since the 1930s. They are often steeped in controversy: some specialists believing they are effective, whilst others seeing them as being imperialistic and imposed.
