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Sunday, Jun 27, 2004

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Andhra Pradesh

Anti-filaria programme in 9 more districts

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JUNE 26. Mass drug administration (MDA) to reduce transmission of filaria is being taken up in higly endemic areas in nine more districts of the State, under a revised strategy to supplement the existing National Filaria Control Programme. The districts are Visakhapatnam, Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam, Nellore, Nalgonda, Ranga Reddy, Nizamabad and Karimnagar.

The MDA programme is being taken up on Saturday in the districts of Krishna, Guntur, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Vizianagaram, East Godavari, Medak and Mahbubnagar. It will be implemented in the other districts next month, a meeting to review the anti-filaria programme attended by the Union Minister of State for Health, P. Lakshmi, at the Indian Institute of Health and Family Welfare, here, was told by State officials. The Government of India is giving financial assistance and supplying DEC tablets for conducting the MDA programme, which was already taken up in Srikakulam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Medak, Mahbubnagar and Vizianagaram during the last five years. According to the government guidelines, MDA, with administration of DEC tablets to entire population once a year, is undertaken to check filaria and infection in the community under the elimination of lymphatic filariasis programme. Its objectives are to interrupt transmission in all endemic areas and to alleviate and prevent suffering and disability in affected individuals.

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